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You will have to read the book Just Around Midnight by jack hamilton FULLY and answer questions in paragraphs using what you learned from reading the book. the book talks about how rock started by African Americans, and how it shifted to being white. the primes of the book is Why and how did rock and roll become white? Jack Hamilton challenges the racial categories that distort standard histories of rock music and the 60s revolution. I will attach slides that might help + questions + book for you, everything must be original, NO PLAGIARISM or weird English, if you cant write in proper English perfectly, please don't take this assignment!!
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Running head: JUST AROUND MIDNIGHT
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Just Around Midnight
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JUST AROUND MIDNIGHT
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1) What is the racial imagination and why does Hamilton say it is important? Do you
agree or disagree?
In reference to Hamilton work’s “Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial
Imagination”, racial imagination refers to how music was racially segregated such that Whites
could not listen to performance by Black musician while white musicians restricted their target
audience to Whites (Hamilton, 2016). This imagination is important as in the 1950s, 1960s and
1970s, particular genres of music came to be associated with particular race. For instance, rock
came to be associated with White musicians while Soul principally performed by Black African
Americans. With this respect, I agree with Hamilton postulation that race ...