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Articles
Chronology of Unsigned Articles
“Who the Biggest Hoodlums Are.” Newsweek, April 23, 1956, p. 31.
“Freed Is Indicted over Rock ’n’ Roll.” New York Times, May 9, 1958.
“Rock ’n’ Roll Rolls On ’n’ On.” Life, December 22, 1958.
“Clay Takes a Jab at Civil Rights Bill.” New York Times, May 20, 1964.
“Changes in Mass Are Made Public.” New York Times, May 22, 1964.
“Negroes Are Found to Be Uninterested in Mixed Marriage.” New York Times, May 25, 1964.
“Equal Job Laws Exist in 26 States.” New York Times, June 7, 1964.
“Civil Rights Bill Passed, 73–27.” New York Times, June 20, 1964.
“Picture Phones Go into Service.” New York Times, June 25, 1964.
“Kennedy Labels Oswald a Misfit.” New York Times, June 30, 1964.
“The Harlem Riots.” Life, July 31, 1964.
“Message Time.” Time, September 17, 1965.
“The Biggest Car.” Time, April 1, 1966.
“Is Beatlemania Dead?” Time, September 2, 1966.
Signed Articles
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Auchmutey, Jim. “Al-Amin: A Life Layered with Irony.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 18, 2001.
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Gansberg, Martin. “Mayors Warned on Racial Issue.” New York Times, May 25, 1964.
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PHOTO CREDITS
Martha and the Vandellas: courtesy Associated Press
Chuck Berry: courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-123602
Hitsville U.S.A.: © Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Cholly Atkins and the Four Tops: © Michael Ochs Archives/Corbis
July 1964 race riot in Harlem: courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-136929
Sam Cooke: courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-107994
Los Angeles police hustling rioter into car: courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-113634
Amiri Baraka: courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-115116
Martin Luther King Jr.: courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-115299
Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley: © Bettmann/Corbis
The Beatles with Ed Sullivan: courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-124522
Berry Gordy with the Supremes: © Michael Ochs Archives/Corbis
Fire in Detroit on July 24, 1967: © Bettmann/Corbis
Marvin Gaye: Associated Press
David Bowie and Mick Jagger: © Redferns/Getty
INDEX
The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. To find the corresponding locations in the text of this digital version, please use the “search” function on your e-reader. Note that not all terms may be searchable.
Adedapo, Naima, 233
Adler, Lou, 180–81
African Americans. See black music; black power movement; civil rights movement
“Age of Purpose, The” (Asim), 229
Ali, Muhammad (formerly Cassius Clay), 54, 114–15, 130
Ali, Tariq, 205, 206
American Idol, 233
Anderson, Marian, 80
Anna record label, 84, 98
Armstrong, Louis, 6
Arnaz, Desi, 17
ASCAP-BMI rivalry, 34, 39
Ashford, Jack, 74, 145, 213
Ashford, Rosalind, 91, 97–98, 146. See also Martha and the Vandellas
Asim, Jabari, 229
Atkins, Cholly, 123–24
Baez, Joan, 103, 133, 220
Baker, Ella, 105
Baldwin, James, 27, 115, 163–64, 166, 174
Ballard, Florence, 95–96, 128
Baraka, Amiri (formerly LeRoi Jones)
on African musical traditions, 4, 191
Black Arts Movement, 173
on blacks as nonconformists, 101
“Black People!” on rationale for violence, 184–85
Blues People, 4, 191
on “Dancing in the Street,” 189, 192
on how whites and blacks view one another, 164
multifaceted background of, 8
on political significance of Vandellas songs, 192
on R&B, 5, 9
on South for blacks, 53
on white audience for swing music, 6
on white exploitation of black music, 203–4, 230
Barnett, Ross, 115
Barnum, H. B. (Hidle Brown), 26, 218
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br /> Bascomb, Wilbur, 221
Battiste, Harold, 28
Beard, Annette, 91, 97–98, 146
Beatles, The
hits of, 129, 155, 179
influence of black music on, 130
integrated sessions of, 219
political edginess of, 175
publicity pose with Cassius Clay, 130
relationship with Motown, 132–33
revitalization of record industry, 132
U.S. tours of, xvi–xvii, 130–31, 152–53
bebop, 24–25, 63
Benjamin, Benny, 76, 94, 144–45
Benjaminson, Peter, 212
Bennett, Tony, 32, 33–34
Berry, Chuck, 1, 21, 23, 25, 26, 40, 41, 42, 81, 130, 131, 139, 191, 194, 198, 204
Berry, Richard, 190
Big Chill, The, 228–30
Billboard magazine, 7, 31, 108, 152, 159
Black, Cilla, 178–79
Black Arts Movement, 173–74
Blackboard Jungle, 19–21, 22–23
“Black Boy Looks at the White Boy, The” (Baldwin), 163
Black Forum record label, 102, 104
black music. See also crossover; R&B
body movement with, 9–10
45 rpm single recordings of, 13
girl groups of, 47–48, 89
gospel, 7–8, 10, 28, 48–49, 88
masked meanings of, 191–92, 193–94
naming of cities in, 139–40
protest and freedom songs of, 19, 102–3, 171–72
“race music” designation of, 7
roots of, 3–5, 16–17, 102
sanitizing and whitening of, 19, 36–37
technological advances affecting, 12–14
“Black People!” (Baraka), 184–85
black power movement
birth of, 107
black, as term, 2–3
Black Arts Movement, 173–74
Black Muslims, 114
“Black National Anthem” (aka “Lift Every Voice and Sing”), 173
Black Panther organization, 154, 189
black pride of, 2–3
black power, as phrase, 161
“Dancing in the Street” as anthem for, 172, 186–89, 192
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