{"product_id":"a-change-is-gonna-come-music-race-the-soul-of-america-9780472031474","title":"A Change Is Gonna Come: Music  Race \u0026 the Soul of America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\". . . extraordinarily far-reaching. . . . highly accessible.\" Notes  \"No one has written this way about music in a long  long time. Lucid  insightful  with real spiritual  political  intellectual  and emotional grasp of the whole picture. 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 music  both as music and as seen in a larger social context. No one can do this better than Craig Werner.\" Henry Louis Gates  Jr.  W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities  Harvard University  \"Werner has mastered the extremely difficult art of writing about music as both an aesthetic and social force that conveys  implies  symbolizes  and represents ideas as well as emotion  but without reducing its complexities and ambiguities to merely didactic categories.\" African American Review  A Change Is Gonna Come is the story of more than four decades of enormously influential black music  from the hopeful  angry refrains of the Freedom movement  to the slick pop of Motown; from the disco inferno to the Million Man March; from Woodstocks \"Summer of Love\" to the war in Vietnam and the race riots that inspired Marvin Gaye to write \"Whats Going On.\"  Originally published in 1998  A Change Is Gonna Come drew the attention of scholars and general readers alike. This new edition  featuring four new and updated chapters  will reintroduce Werners seminal study of black music to a new generation of readers.  Craig Werner is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin  and author of many books  including Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse and Up Around the Bend: An Oral History of Creedence Clearwater Revival. His most recent book is Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder  Aretha Franklin  Curtis Mayfield  and the Rise and Fall of American Soul.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953321041973,"sku":"ByrdShop_0472031473","price":22.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780472031474.jpg?v=1788185178","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-change-is-gonna-come-music-race-the-soul-of-america-9780472031474","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}