The original architects of rock rsquo;nrsquo; roll were black musicians including Little Richard; Etta James; and Chuck Berry. Jimi Hendrix electrified rock with his explosive guitar in the late 1960s. Yet by the 1980s; rock music produced by African Americans no longer seemed to be ldquo;authentically black.rdquo; Particularly within the music industry; the prevailing view was that no onemdash;not black audiences; not white audiences; and not black musiciansmdash;had an interest in black rock. In 1985 New York-based black musicians and writers formed the Black Rock Coalition (brc) to challenge that notion and create outlets for black rock music. A second branch of the coalition started in Los Angeles in 1989. Under the auspices of the brc; musicians organized performances and produced recordings and radio and television shows featuring black rock. The first book to focus on the brc; Right to Rock is; like the coalition itself; about the connections between race and music; identity and authenticity; art and politics; and power and change. Maureen Mahon observed and participated in brc activities in New York and Los Angeles; and she conducted interviews with more than two dozen brc members. In Right to Rock she offers an in-depth account of how; for nearly twenty years; members of the brc have broadened understandings of black identity and black culture through rock music.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Charming play; well annotated; good Kindle editionBy James M. RawleyThis is a charming play; which happens to be the last play produced before the Puritans closed the theaters in 1642 and thereby also ended the whole "Elizabethan" period; which included Jacobean plays written under King James; like Shakespeares King Lear and Othello; and Carolinian plays; written under King Charles; like this one.Its a musical comedy; with many delightful songs. The heroes and heroines; and there are lots of both; think that beggars lead the best lives: they dont have to work; roam merrily through the fields; beg a meal when they need to; and otherwise take all their time off and just have fun. So the heroes and heroines; middle class kids all; decide to become beggars themselves.They immediately find out its not such a good life after all. Some people hit them with sticks instead of giving them money; and others refuse to let them sleep in their barns; which forces them into the frozen open air. What disillusionment! And now lets have a dance.Fortunately; the father of the principal faux beggar is a very sweet guy named Oldrents. As Oldrents friend Hearty asks him:Do you not liveFree; out of law or grieving any man?Are you not thonly rich man lives unenvied?Have you not all the praises of the richAnd prayers of the poor? Did ever anyServant or hireling; neighbor; kindred; curse you;Or wish one minute shortened of your life?Have you one grudging tenant? Will they not allFight for you? Do they not teach their children;And make em; too; pray for you morn and evening;And in their graces too; as duly asFor King and realm? ... Your great love and bountyProcures from heaven those inspirations in em. ...Whereer you pass; "Heaven bless our landlord; Oldrents."Oldrents at last not only forgives his children and servants for wandering off; but gives lots of money; a good living; to some of the beggars the kids have run into on the way. It seems that Oldrents grandfather tricked them out of money years ago; and forced them to beg -- so now the grandson can help them out too; along with his own children.If thats not charmingly sentimental; what is? And what a treat to read what is in a way the very last specimen of the theater that produced Shakespeare; Marlowe; and Ben Jonson. Brome was Ben Jonsons apprentice -- and least Ben Jonson said he was; even after the period when Bromes plays became more successful than Jonsons.This new Arden edition has excellent notes; a good introduction; and so on: the usual expert Arden thing. A reader couldnt do better. The Kindle version; in landscape; is beautiful: good line numbering with no margin problems; and excellent hyperlinked notes. Theres a slight tendency to restart unexpectedly; but its forgivable considering the complexity of the electronic presentation. Reading this play on a Kindle is like traveling through time and ending up a happy beggar in a beautiful country.1 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Are they kidding?By MACLEARA Jovial Crew???? Its no wonder there are no reviews here. I have taken two courses in Renaissance and Jacobean drama and have taught it in college and have never heard of this play. If theyre going to publish a play from this time - why not Middletons "The Changeling"? Why not Marstons "The Dutch Courtesan"? Why not Jonsons "Volpone"? What of Tourneurs "The Revengers Tragedy"? Whos minding the store there at Arden????