A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
Craig Werner
Available as Paperback
A definitive look at black music in America over the past few decades
A Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop of Motown; from Woodstock and the ‘Summer of Love’ to Vietnam and the race riots; from disco inferno to the Million Man March. This is an insightful and riveting study which looks at the place black music occupies in social history, its battle for the desegregation of popular music and its contribution to social change outside the recording studio
Craig Werner
Craig Werner is a professor of African-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, where he teaches courses on Black Music and American Cultural History. He is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.