Rubber Souls: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

This dissertation explores the interplay of popular music and racial thought in the 1960s, and asks how, when, and why rock and roll music "became white." By Jimi Hendrix's death in 1970 the idea of a black man playing electric lead guitar was considered literally remarkable in ways i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hamilton, John C.
Other Authors: Sollors, Werner
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2013
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10873
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11125122