"Jimi Hendrix was a black man from a black world who made extra-terrestrial black music", Greg Tate writes. "So why has he never made it into the pantheon of twentieth-century black icons?" Setting out to answer this question, Midnight Lightning explores a fantastically eclectic range of issues: how Hendrix exploded our complacently segregated world to emerge as an icon for white boys; why black people once viewed him as a hippie Uncle Tom; his connection to the Black Power movement; how he revolutionized the use of technology in popular music; how he redefined rock fashion; his sex appeal, especially for black women; why nobody was mad at him for sleeping with white women; and how he has subverted and destabilized black masculine stereotypes. The result is a book which will change the way we think not only about black music, but about black identity itself.
- ISBN10 1556524692
- ISBN13 9781556524691
- Publish Date 1 July 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 March 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Hill (Lawrence) Books,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English