{"product_id":"a-change-is-gonna-come-music-race-the-soul-of-america-9780472031474","title":"A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race \u0026 the Soul of America","description":"\". . . extraordinarily far-reaching. . . . highly accessible.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"No one has written this way about music in a long, long time. Lucid, insightful, with real spiritual, political, intellectual, and emotional grasp of the whole picture. A book about why music matters, and how, and to whom.\" \u003cbr\u003e --Dave Marsh, author of \u003ci\u003eLouie, Louie\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBorn to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This book is urgently needed: a comprehensive look at the various forms of black popular music, both as music and as seen in a larger social context. No one can do this better than Craig Werner.\" \u003cbr\u003e --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" Werner has] mastered the extremely difficult art of writing about music as both an aesthetic and social force that conveys, implies, symbolizes, and represents ideas as well as emotion, but without reducing its complexities and ambiguities to merely didactic categories.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eAfrican American Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Change Is Gonna Come\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of more than four decades of enormously influential black music, from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement, to the slick pop of Motown; from the disco inferno to the Million Man March; from Woodstock's \"Summer of Love\" to the war in Vietnam and the race riots that inspired Marvin Gaye to write \"What's Going On.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Originally published in 1998, \u003ci\u003eA Change Is Gonna Come\u003c\/i\u003e drew the attention of scholars and general readers alike. This new edition, featuring four new and updated chapters, will reintroduce Werner's seminal study of black music to a new generation of readers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraig Werner\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, and author of many books, including \u003ci\u003ePlaying the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUp Around the Bend: An Oral History of Creedence Clearwater Revival.\u003c\/i\u003e His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eHigher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Sou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003el\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraig Werner\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, and author of many books, including \u003ci\u003ePlaying the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHigher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul\u003c\/i\u003e. He is currently finishing work on \u003ci\u003eFreedoms\u003c\/i\u003e, a two-volume history of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460306931986,"sku":"9780472031474","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5c4c1f7e-8062-49fa-b75d-58401df69c20.jpg?v=1730036816","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-change-is-gonna-come-music-race-the-soul-of-america-9780472031474","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}