Dream Boogie.Dream Boogie Peter Guralnick Peter Guralnick (born December 15, 1943, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American music critic, writer on music, and historian of US American popular music, who is also active as an author and screenwriter. Little, Brown 1271 Avenue of Americas, NY, NY 10020 0316377945 $27.95 www.twbg.com Plenty of other accounts of gospel/soul singer Sam Cooke have been written before, so at first glance the need for yet another in Dream Boogie: The Triumph Of Sam Cooke seems illogical, even redundant--but wait, there's more depth and detail here than in others. Perhaps this is because Peter Guralnick already has a history writing extensively on American popular music American popular music had a profound effect on music across the world. The country has seen the rise of popular styles that have had a significant influence on global culture, including ragtime, blues, jazz, rock, R&B, doo wop, gospel, soul, funk, heavy metal, punk, disco, house, and musicians, from Robert Johnson Robert Johnson may refer to:
adj. 1. Containing, consisting of, or relating to the facts or events in a person's life. 2. Of or relating to biography as a literary form. detail to probe the social and cultural atmosphere which fostered Cooke and his music. Either way, it's a powerful account which blends personal with professional facts to lend many more insights into artist Sam Cooke than other biographies can offer. |
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