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Don Armstrong is a retired Associate Professor of Architecture from the Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science at Tuskegee University, USA, where he published academic writings on design pedagogy and African American architecture. He is now a freelance writer and independent scholar, as well as the creator of the website Music Journalism History and Facebook group under the same name, which provides an important forum for leading music journalists, musicians, and others in the music industry.
Fascinating deconstruction and analysis of the esthetic and ethical crusade of America’s greatest and most eloquent musical critic, Ralph J. Gleason, who understood that the people’s music—gospel, blues, folk, jazz, and rock and roll—were at the root of American identity and at its best spoke with morality and honesty and had the power to sway a nation and to change our lives. * Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone * Ralph Gleason was among the most astute and impactful interpreters and mediators of mid-20th century American music, hip to everything from Bunk Johnson and Billie Holiday to Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew and the Grateful Dead. In this superb book, Don Armstrong gives Gleason what he deserves, and what we desperately need: a richly detailed chronicle of this singular writer/producer/social activist’s career, and a timely argument about the indispensable role such people play in shaping and sustaining our culture and our democracy. * John Gennari, Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Vermont, USA, and author of Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics (2006) *
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