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My Black Country
Alice Randall
其他書名
A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
出版Simon and Schuster, 2024-04-09
主題Biography & Autobiography / MusicBiography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHistory / African American & BlackMusic / Genres & Styles / Country & BluegrassMusic / History & Criticism
ISBN16680184039781668018408
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZrP6EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music.

Country music had brought Alice 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 (An American Girl)”. 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 delightful, inspirational story of persistence, resistance, and sheer love” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of this 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.