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How did rock and roll become white?

That’s the provocative question at the heart of the new book about the racial shift in rock music.

It’s called “Just Around Midnight”.

Author Jack Hamilton is an Assistant Professor American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Virginia and the pop critic for Slate magazine.

 

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