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Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination Audiobook, by Jack Hamilton Play Audiobook Sample

Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination Audiobook

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Read By: Ron Butler Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2017 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781541471405

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

14

Longest Chapter Length:

57:18 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

32:17 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

43:26 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s rock and roll was racially inclusive and attracted listeners and performers across the color line. In the 1960s, however, rock and roll gave way to rock: a new musical ideal regarded as more serious, more artistic—and the province of white musicians. Decoding the racial discourses that have distorted standard histories of rock music, Jack Hamilton underscores how ideas of "authenticity" have blinded us to rock's inextricably interracial artistic enterprise.

According to the standard storyline, the authentic white musician was guided by an individual creative vision, whereas black musicians were deemed authentic only when they stayed true to black tradition. Serious rock became white because only white musicians could be original without being accused of betraying their race. Juxtaposing Sam Cooke and Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, and many others, Hamilton challenges the racial categories that oversimplified the sixties revolution and provides a deeper appreciation of the twists and turns that kept the music alive.

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"[Hamilton] contributes a new and valuable piece to a larger and still contentious project: the struggle against the essentialization of racial and ethnic identity."

— Los Angeles Review of Books

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About Ron Butler

Ron Butler is a Los Angeles–based actor, Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator, and voice artist with over a hundred film and television credits. Most kids will recognize him from the three seasons he spent on Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP. He works regularly as a commercial and animation voice-over artist and has voiced a wide variety of audiobooks. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an Independent Filmmaker Project Award winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People.