David Burke, Vintage Rock, December 2019
America was riven by racial conflict when rock'n'roll breached the colour line, uniting black and white youth in a precursor to the hard-won equalities of the civil rights movement. David Burke looks at the music's relationship to race.
Total word count of piece: 2558
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