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Authors:	Katie Kapurch, Jon Marc Smith
Title:	Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang The Beatles Into Being - And Sang Back To Them Ever After
Publisher:	Penn State University Press
Country:	USA
Date:	14 Nov 2023
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music, Academia
ISBN-13:	9780271095615
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Price Guide:	$110
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264 pages. Book dimensions: 6 inches x 0.98 inches x 9 inches.

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From the beginning, the Beatles announced their debt to Black music in interviews, recording covers and original songs inspired by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, the Shirelles, and other giants of R&B. Blackbird goes deeper, appreciating unacknowledged forerunners, as well as Black artists whose interpretations keep the Beatles in play.

Drawing on interviews with Black musicians and using the song "Blackbird" as a touchstone, Katie Kapurch and Jon Marc Smith tell a new history. They present unheard stories and resituate old ones, offering the phrase “transatlantic flight” to characterize a back-and-forth dialogue shaped by Black musicians in the United States and elsewhere, including Liverpool. Kapurch and Smith find a lineage that reaches back to the very origins of American popular music, one that involves the original twentieth-century blackbird, Florence Mills, and King of the Twelve String, Lead Belly. Continuing the circular flightpath with Nina Simone, Billy Preston, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, Sylvester, and others, the authors take readers into the twenty-first century, when Black artists like Bettye LaVette harness the Beatles for today.

Detailed, thoughtful, and revelatory, Blackbird explores musical and storytelling legacies full of rich but contested symbolism. Appealing to those interested in developing a deep understanding of the evolution of popular music, this book promises that you'll never hear “Blackbird” - and the Beatles - the same way again.

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