Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

by Jack Hamilton

Book Overview

When Jimi Hendrix died, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet ten years earlier, Chuck Berry had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become white? Jack Hamilton challenges the racial categories that distort standard histories of rock music and the 60s revolution.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674416597
• ISBN13: 9780674416598
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.3"