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SUMMARY:An Industry Beneath Their Feet
LOCATION:West End Neighborhood Library\nWest End Neighborhood Library
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DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, DC based author Norman Kelley examines how '
 race' leadership failed to institutionalize the economic power of Black po
 pular music..\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/15725730
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong><em>Why did a people whose greates
 t export is music never develop an industry around it?</em></strong><br />
 <br />In this provocative lecture\, author and critic Norman Kelley examin
 es how 'race' leadership - Booker T. Washington\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, James W
 eldon Johnson\, Marcus Garvey\, and Nannie Hellen Burroughs - failed to in
 stitutionalize the economic power of Black popular music. Drawing on his u
 npublished book\,&nbsp\;<em>An Industry Beneath Their Feet\,&nbsp\;</em>Ke
 lley argues that the political economy of Black music reveals a deeper sto
 ry of class bias\, cultural neglect\, and missed opportunities for both co
 llective advancement and economic self-sufficiency.<br /><br /><strong>Nor
 man Kelley</strong> is the author of <em>R&amp\;B (Rhythm &amp\; Buisiness
 ): The Political Economy of Black Music</em> and&nbsp\;<em>The Head Negro 
 in Charge Syndrome: The Dead End of Black Politics.</em></p>\nhttps://dcli
 brary.libnet.info/event/15725730
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