Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and Race in Rock Music
The success of San Francisco’s most popular rock band was the result of race. In the 1970s, rock ‘n’ roll split into rock, by white musicians for white audiences, and soul, by and for Black listeners. As the economy collapsed, white teenagers abandoned the integrated spirit of Woodstock and demanded music that spoke to their anxiety. That’s what Journey provided, especially with “Don’t Stop Believin,’” which spoke to the darkness of their postindustrial lives as well as their hopes for a better future....
Lately, the label, ‘the most important civil rights leader you’ve never heard of,’ has been given to many lesser-known heroes and sheroes of the mid-20th century movement.
Arthur Allen Fletcher, the father of affirmative action, is chief among them. Fletcher, is the father of affirmative....
October 14, 2022: Charles Sawyer, author of B.B. King from Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the King of the Blues (Focal, 2022) on the New Books Network
