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Move on Up - Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power (Paperback)
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Move on Up - Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power (Paperback)
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Loot Price R553
Discovery Miles 5 530
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Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago's place in the
history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music
in its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s was more than just a
series of hits: it was a marker and a source of black empowerment.
In Move On Up, Aaron Cohen tells the remarkable story of the
explosion of soul music in Chicago. Together, soul music and
black-owned businesses thrived. Record producers and song-writers
broadcast optimism for black America's future through their
sophisticated, jazz-inspired productions for the Dells and many
others. Curtis Mayfield boldly sang of uplift with unmistakable
grooves like "We're a Winner" and "I Plan to Stay a Believer."
Musicians like Phil Cohran and the Pharaohs used their music to
voice Afrocentric philosophies that challenged racism and
segregation, while Maurice White of Earth, Wind, and Fire and Chaka
Khan created music that inspired black consciousness. Soul music
also accompanied the rise of African American advertisers and the
campaign of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, in
1983. This empowerment was set in stark relief by the social unrest
roiling in Chicago and across the nation: as Chicago's homegrown
record labels produced rising stars singing songs of progress and
freedom, Chicago's black middle class faced limited economic
opportunities and deep-seated segregation, all against a backdrop
of nationwide deindustrialization. Drawing on more than one hundred
interviews and a music critic's passion for the unmistakable
Chicago soul sound, Cohen shows us how soul music became the voice
of inspiration and change for a city in turmoil.
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