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Borrowing from such sources as archival recordings and news stories, A Hunger Called Music documents the early history of African-American music beginning with work songs and ending with Motown-era soul. Using each genre's historical context and the music itself as inspiration, the poems in the chapbook take on a range of voices and stories from Robert Johnson to Nina Simone, and from a white 1950s record producer to a witness to police brutality. In doing so, the poems work to unearth the commonalities of experience between previous eras and the current one through the intergenerational constant of music.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Hunger Called Music (a Verse History of Black Music)
• Author: Meredith Nnoka
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• EAN: 9781936196784
• ISBN: 1936196786
• ID: 14274461
• Publisher: C&R Press
• Weight: 73 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 3 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2016

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