Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul

The Resource Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
Label
Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
Title remainder
searching for James Brown and the American soul
Statement of responsibility
James McBride
Title variation
Kill them and leave
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • "A product of the complicated history of the American South, James Brown was a cultural shape-shifter who arguably had the greatest influence of any artist on American popular music. Brown was long a figure of fascination for James McBride, a noted professional musician as well as a writer. When he received a tip that promised to uncover the man behind the myth, McBride set off to follow a trail to better understand the personal, musical, and societal influences that created this immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated soul genius."--flyleaf
  • McBride shows that Brown's rough-and-tumble life is an unsettling metaphor for American life: the tension between North and South, black and white, rich and poor. From the forgotten corners of the country town where Brown's family was among those displaced by America's largest nuclear power bomb-making facility to the Augusta, Georgia, funeral home where the Michael Jackson sat up all night with the body of his musical godfather, you'll come to understand Brown through McBride's own insights as a black musician with Southern roots
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
  • 782.421644092
  • B
Index
no index present
LC call number
ML420.B818
LC item number
M33 2016
Literary form
non fiction
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