‘Just Around Midnight’ Is About the Time Rock Music and Race Collide
In Just Around Midnight, Jack Hamilton explains what happened over the course of the '60s that turned rock 'n' roll white.
rock music and race
Textbook Oppositions and Alternatives: Re-Thinking the Role of Race in 1960s Rock and Soul Music
More numerous than even general African-American music history textbooks, rock music history textbooks mark 1960s rock as “white” and soul as “black”, using language that sometimes unintentionally values rock over soul in racist ways.