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Lying up a Nation

Race and Black Music

Ronald M Radano author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:2nd Dec '03

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What is black music? For some it is a unique expression of the African-American experience, its soulful vocals and stirring rhythms forged in the fires of black resistance in response to centuries of oppression. But as Ronald Radano argues in this bracing work, the whole idea of black music has a much longer and more complicated history-one that speaks as much of musical and racial integration as it does of separation.

ISBN: 9780226701981

Dimensions: 23mm x 16mm x 2mm

Weight: 624g

440 pages