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Burn, Baby! Burn!: The Autobiography of Magnificent Montague (Music in American Life)

Автор: Magnificent Montague
Год: 2003
Издание: [не указанo]
Страниц: 232
ISBN: 0252028732
Book DescriptionWith his dynamic on-air personality and his trademark cry of "Burn, baby! Burn" when spinning the hottest new records, Magnificent Montague was the charismatic voice of soul music in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. In this memoir Montague recounts the events of his momentous radio career, which ran from the era of segregation to that of the civil rights movement; as he does so, he also tells the broader story of a life spent in the passionate pursuit of knowledge, historical and musical. Like many black disc jockeys of his day, Montague played a role in his community beyond simply spreading the music of James Brown, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, and other prominent artists. Montague served as an unofficial spokesman for his black listeners, reflecting their beliefs and acting as a sounding board for their concerns. Montague was based in Los Angeles in 1965 when the Watts rioters seized on his incendiary slogan, turning...
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