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Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Imagine a world in which gospel, the blues, jazz, R & B, and rock 'n' roll didn't exist. These indigenous American musical forms are the product of, and a moving expression of the African American experience. Musical geniuses and innovators like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, B.B. King, and Jimi Hendrix turned individual and collective histories of suffering and injustice into soul-stirring, monumental art that shattered boundaries,...
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Musician Bobby Brown successfully crossed over many genres, charting with R&B and hip hop as well as the mainstream. In the late 1980s, the former front man of New Edition had a wildly successful solo career with the launch of Don't Be Cruel, garnering multiple hits on the Billboard top ten list as well as several Grammy, American Music, and Soul Train awards. But Brown then put his career on hold to be with the woman he loved -- American music royalty...
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English
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"Earth, Wind & Fire was one of the most popular and significant bands of the past century, celebrated alongside Chicago, the Commodores, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, and Sly and the Family Stone. They transcended genres and fused diverse influences, from R & B to pop to jazz and beyond, earning multiple Grammy Awards--and most recently a Lifetime Achievement Award, shortly after the passing of the band's founder, Maurice White. Although many of White's...
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