Black Music
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This book is an offshoot of the 'Black Music' Magazine which was popular in the early 70's. No author is credited with having written it so it was probably put together by a team of 'Black Music' Journalists. Apart from the section on James Brown the other articles are stylistically very similar which makes it difficult to tell. In total the book interviews twenty-one black musicians of which eighteen can loosely be categorised as 'Soul' and the remaining three (Maytals, John Holt and Dandy Livingstone) as Reggae. The book is constructed as a series of mini-autobiographies in which each artist receives about three pages to tell their own story. Within such a limited bookspace it is impossible for them to cover their private lives so only their professional achievements are developed. The text is presented as a series of transcripts in which the authors make minimum intervention. Only the James Brown piece has any significant additional comment with a large tract describing the vibrancy of his act. The book is well illustrated with lots of black/white and colour photographs although some of them are illogically organised and appear in the middle of an interview with a different artist. There is also a feeling that the book has been padded out as some pages contain only a limited text on an expanse of white paper. An interesting book, but defiantly not essential.
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