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24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth (Paperback)
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24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth (Paperback)
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Loot Price R254
Discovery Miles 2 540
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In 1973, the musical collective 24-Carat Black released an
unheralded masterpiece on Stax Records-and then disappeared.
Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth, a soul-funk concept album primarily
written by the ex-Motown arranger Dale Warren, was too bleak,
ambitious, or just outright bizarre to reach mainstream audiences.
24-Carat Black collapsed when Stax went bankrupt, and the group's
only completed album sank into cultural obscurity. With deep
reporting elucidating an untold story full of cinematic details,
this book traces how Ghetto went from commercial flop to enigmatic
underground classic embraced by the hip-hop community. It also
chronicles, in infuriating detail, how the music industry of the
1970s systematically exploited soul musicians and then left them
struggling to get paid-and where 24-Carat Black fits into this
broader injustice. This is a fascinating and multilayered story
about a remarkable album nearly lost to history. It's also a rare
glimpse into what it's like to have your music resurrected by rap
samples decades after your career fell apart.
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