CRAIG WERNER is a professor of Afro-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.
A Change
Is Gonna Come
MUSIC, RACE & THESOUL OF AMERICA
Craig Werner
CANONGATE
Published in the US by Plume, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc.
First published in Great Britain in 2000 by
Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street,
Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This edition published in 2014 by Canongate Books
Copyright © 1998, Craig Werner
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
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ISBN 978 1 84195 296 3
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Contents
Introduction: “What’s Going On”
Acknowledgments
Section One: “A Change Is Gonna Come”: Mahalia Jackson, Motown, and the Movement
1.
The Dream
2.
Mahalia and the Movement
3.
“The Soul of the Movement”: Calls and Responses
4.
Motown: Money, Magic, and the Mask
5.
The Big Chill vs. Cooley High: Two out of Three Falls for the Soul of Motown
The Gospel Impulse
6.
Sam Cooke and the Voice of Change
7.
Solid Gold Coffins: Phil Spector and the Girl Group Blues
8.
SAR and the Ambiguity of Integration
9.
“The Times They Are A-Changin’ ”: Port Huron and the Folk Revival
10.
Woody and Race
11.
“Blowin’ in the Wind”: Politics and Authenticity
12.
Music and the Truth: The Birth of Southern Soul
13.
Down at the Crossroads
The Blues Impulse
14.
Soul Food: The Mid-South Mix
15.
Dylan, the Brits, and Blue-Eyed Soul
16.
The Minstrel Blues
17.
Otis, Jimi, and the Summer of Love: From Monterey to Woodstock
18.
Last Thoughts on the Dream: Dot and Diana
Section Two: “Love or Confusion?”: Black Power, Vietnam, and the Death of the Dream
