My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future by Alice Randall
- My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
- Alice Randall
- Page: 288
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781668018408
- Publisher: Atria/Black Privilege Publishing
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Notes From Your Bookseller With a narrative voice that could make any topic sing, this is an important cultural exploration of an often-overlooked chunk of the American music scene. Fans of country music, or of music in general, need this book. Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a “lively, engaging, and often wise” (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite a number one country hit, Trisha Yearwood’s “XXX’s and OOO’s”. Randall found inspiration and comfort in the sounds and history of the first family of Black country music: DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries who, together, made up a community of Black Americans rising through hard times to create simple beauty, true joy, and sometimes profound eccentricity. What emerges in My Black Country is a celebration of the most American of music genres and the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture. As country music goes through a fresh renaissance today, with a new wave of Black artists enjoying success, My Black Country is the perfect gift for longtime country fans and a vibrant introduction to a new generation of listeners who previously were not invited to give the genre a chance.
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As country music goes through a fresh renaissance today, with a new wave of Black artists enjoying success, My Black Country is the perfect gift for longtime
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As country music goes through a fresh renaissance today, with a new wave of Black artists enjoying success, My Black Country is the perfect gift for longtime
A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present
MY BLACK COUNTRY, her memoir, braids the story of her forty years in Nashville working in and around Country Music with the story of her First Family of Black