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Boogaloo

Author: Kempton, Arthur; Editor: Mcdonald, Erroll
Hardcover
Pantheon Books
ISBN: 0375406123

Boogaloo: of course, a popular dance of the late sixties, but really the synonym of choice for soul music or rhythm and blues among the cognoscenti; the word sweetly conjures the miscegenetic essence of American culture.)A stylish and profound scholar of African-American popular culture, among other accomplishments, Arthur Kempton gives us a book that, in form and substance, is unlike any other. To tell the story of black Americans in the 20th century, he deftly interweaves in Boogaloo five narrative strands by turns, his contrapuntal themes being the lives and times of Thomas Dorsey, the Father of Gospel Music: Sam Cooke, perhaps the greatest soul singer ever; Berry Gordy, creator of Motown and popular music entrepreneur par excellence; funk visionary George Clinton; and

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