
George Lipsitz
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Professor of Black Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara. Author of Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture; Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s.
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James Brown was an American singer, songwriter, arranger, and dancer, who was one of the most important and influential entertainers in 20th-century popular music and whose remarkable achievements earned him the sobriquet “the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business.” Brown was raised mainly in…
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