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Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
Title:
Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
ISBN:
9780147522788

9780147522764
Edition:
Unabridged.
Publication Information:
[Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape ; New York : Random House Audio, [2016]
Physical Description:
8 audio discs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Title from web page and container.

Compact discs.
Contents:
Foreword: The buzz -- Countin' off. Mystery house ; Cussin' and fussin' ; American jive -- Hit it! The vapors ; Six Gaines ; Leaving the land ; Bro ; To live standing ; The last flame ; The Rev ; The money man ; The earth beneath his feet ; More money ; The hundred-dollar man ; The rag that nobody reads ; Sis -- Quit it! Say goodbye to the king ; The dream -- Epilogue: Sister Lee.
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Summary:
McBride shows that Brown's rough-and-tumble life is an unsettling metaphor for American life: the tension between North and South, black and white, rich and poor. From the forgotten corners of the country town where Brown's family was among those displaced by America's largest nuclear power bomb-making facility to the Augusta, Georgia, funeral home where the Michael Jackson sat up all night with the body of his musical godfather, you'll come to understand Brown through McBride's own insights as a black musician with Southern roots.
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