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A book about why Music matters, and how, and to whom." -Dave Marsh, author of Louie, Louie and Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story "This book is urgently needed: a comprehensive look at the various forms of black popular.
Lucid, insightful, with real spiritual, political, intellectual, and emotional grasp of the whole picture. highly accessible." - Notes "No one has written this way about Music in a long, long time. . . . extraordinarily far-reaching. . ."