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Tear Down the Walls - White Radicalism and Black Power in 1960s Rock (Paperback)
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Tear Down the Walls - White Radicalism and Black Power in 1960s Rock (Paperback)
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From the earliest days of rock and roll, white artists regularly
achieved fame, wealth, and success that eluded the Black artists
whose work had preceded and inspired them. This dynamic continued
into the 1960s, even as the music and its fans grew to be more
engaged with political issues regarding race. In Tear Down the
Walls, Patrick Burke tells the story of white American and British
rock musicians' engagement with Black Power politics and African
American music during the volatile years of 1968 and 1969. The book
sheds new light on a significant but overlooked facet of 1960s
rock-white musicians and audiences casting themselves as political
revolutionaries by enacting a romanticized vision of African
American identity. These artists' attempts to cast themselves as
revolutionary were often naive, misguided, or arrogant, but they
could also reflect genuine interest in African American music and
culture and sincere investment in anti-racist politics. White
musicians such as those in popular rock groups Jefferson Airplane,
the Rolling Stones, and the MC5, fascinated with Black performance
and rhetoric, simultaneously perpetuated a long history of racial
appropriation and misrepresentation and made thoughtful, self-aware
attempts to respectfully present African American music in forms
that white leftists found politically relevant. In Tear Down the
Walls Patrick Burke neither condemns white rock musicians as
inauthentic nor elevates them as revolutionary. The result is a
fresh look at 1960s rock that provides new insight into how popular
music both reflects and informs our ideas about race and how white
musicians and activists can engage meaningfully with Black
political movements.
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