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    Hey America!: The Epic Story of Black Music and the White House
    Hey America!: The Epic Story of Black Music and the White House
    Hey America!: The Epic Story of Black Music and the White House
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    Hey America!: The Epic Story of Black Music and the White House

    By Stuart Cosgrove

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    This is the untold story of black music – its triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalised record labels, media discrimination and political anxiety – told through the perspective of the most powerful office in the world: from Louis Armstrong's spat with President Eisenhower and Eartha Kitt's stormy encounter with Lady Bird Johnson to James Brown's flirtation with Nixon, Reaganomics and the 'Cop Killer' scandal.

    Moving, insightful and wide-ranging, Hey America! charts the evolution of sixties soul from the margins of American society to the mainstream, culminating in the rise of urban hip-hop and the dramatic stand-off between Donald Trump and the Black Lives Matter movement. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPolygon
    Release dateOct 4, 2022
    ISBN9781788855198
    Hey America!: The Epic Story of Black Music and the White House
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    Stuart Cosgrove

    Stuart Cosgrove originally from Perth, was media editor with the NME and a feature writer for a range of newspapers and magazines. In 2005 he was named Broadcaster of the Year in the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards and in 2012 he won numerous awards including a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award for Channel 4’s coverage of the London Paralympics 2012. The second book in his soul trilogy, Memphis 68, won the Penderyn Music Prize in 2018.

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