The much-anticipated paperback edition of Arthur Kempton's story on the art, influence, and commerce of Black American popular music Praise for Boogaloo:

From Thomas A. Dorsey and gospel to Sam Cooke and the classic age of boogaloo ('soul') to George Clinton and hip hop, this comprehensive analysis of African-American popular music is a deep and gorgeous meditation on its aesthetics and business.
---Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard

Surpassingly sympathetic and probing. . . . a panoramic critical survey of black popular music over seventy-five years. . . .There is no book quite like it.
---New York Review of Books

. . . moving, dense, and fascinating. . . .
---New Yorker

. . . a grand and sweeping survey of the history of soul music in America. . . . one of the best books of music journalism. . . .
---Publisher's Weekly

. . . a fascinating and often original addition to the extensive literature. . . . an astute and witty account. . . . there is plenty in Boogaloo to set the mind and heart alight, as well as some flashes of brilliance and originality rare in music writing today.
---Times Literary Supplement