Group harmony : the Black urban roots of rhythm & blues / Stuart L. Goosman

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Contents: Antecedents -- Time and place -- Entrepreneurship -- Mediators -- Patterns
Summary: Featured in the book's account of the black urban roots of rhythm & blues music are the recollections of singers from groups such as the Orioles, Cardinals, Clovers, Dunbar Four, Four Bars of Rhythm, Five Blue Notes, Hi Fis, Plants, Swallows, and many others, including Jimmy McPhail, a well-known Washington vocalist; Deborah Chessler, the manager and songwriter for the original Orioles; Jesse Stone, the writer and arranger from Atlantic Records; Washington radio personality Jackson Lowe; and seminal black deejays Al ("Big Boy") Jefferson, Maurice ("Hot Rod") Hulbert, and Tex Gathings.

Topic: Rhythm and blues music--History and criticism; African Americans--Social conditions; Race relations