Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock N Roll

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
“Live at Philmore”: Introduction......Page 14
Ten Questions for Little Richard......Page 22
The Ike and Tina Turner Revue: Streatham Locarno, London......Page 26
Paint Me White: Bad Days, Black Rock, and Arthur Lee’s Love Story......Page 30
Bold as Love? Jimi’s Afrocyberdelia and the Challenge of the Not-Yet......Page 46
A.K.A. Sly Stone: The Rise and Fall of Sylvester Stewart......Page 60
Blues for Betty Davis’s Smile: The Betty Davis Lacuna......Page 74
Interview with Venetta Fields......Page 80
Hardcore Jollies in the Himalayas, Staring at the Cosmic Slop: The Mothership Connection between Triple and Quadruple Consciousness......Page 92
Lorraine O’Grady Q & A......Page 106
Play Like a White Boy: Hard Dancing in the City of Chocolate......Page 112
How the Bad Brains Inspired Two Garden-Variety Black Dots from Queens to Be as Rock ‘n’ Roll as They Wanna Be (and Probably You Too)......Page 118
The White Noise Supremacists......Page 124
Prince Leads Black Pop Through the Back Door......Page 136
The Birth of New Blackness: The Family Stand’s Moon In Scorpio......Page 142
Interview with Vernon Reid......Page 150
Rock, Racism, and Retailing 101: A Blueprint for Cultural Theft......Page 166
Interview with Lenny Kravitz......Page 186
“Ain’t Nothin’ Like Real Ghetto Music”: Pharrell Williams, Mos Def, and Andre 3000 Forge a Rap-Rock Poetics......Page 196
The Last Maverick: Me’Shell NdegeOcello and the Burden of Vision......Page 206
if I can get into it, it’s commercial enough for me......Page 210
Interview with Slash (Saul Hudson)......Page 216
Black Rock Glossary......Page 224
About the Contributors......Page 236
Permissions......Page 238
B......Page 240
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M......Page 246
N......Page 247
R......Page 248
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W......Page 251
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