MUSIC IN BLACK AMERICAN LIFE
The latest volume in this on going series has an execrpt from my book on Motown
Over the years the University of Illinois Press has published journals and books on the development of music in America with contributions from scholars on all aspects of this vast subject. Black music, in particular, has been the focus of many of their publications. Any one interested in black music’s history (and since you subscribe to this newsletter I’m sure you are) should check out the press’s catalog at www.press.uillinois.edu.
The first volumne of Music in Black American Life covered 1600 to 1945. The second edition, again edited by Laurie Matheson, looks at the vital period of 1945 to 2020, a time when numerous genres of black music were created who’s impact have spanned the globe. I was honored to have Matheson reach out to have a section of my book on Motown, Where Did Our Love Go, included amongst essays on Duke Ellington, women in jazz, Thelonious Monk and Shirley Caesar. My book was publisheed in 1986 and, to my pleasant surprise, has developed a solid following over a time. A recent poll at the United Kingdon Motown fan web site, West Grand Boulevard, voted it the number one book written on the legendary label, which is amazing since Motown has been written about extensively by journalists, scholars and the singers and executives who worked there. This inclusion in the current Music in Black American Life anthology is another satisfying validation of a book that I wrote when I was in my twenties.
If you’d like to check out Where Did Our Love Go here’s a link.
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Did-Our-Love-2003-09-03/dp/B01FGLQYLG/ref=tmm_mmp_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1595977127&sr=1-1