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R&B's Reinvention in the Post-Disco 1980s

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A love letter to the unsung heroes who kept R&B proudly Black “When I think about you, my feelings can’t explain, why after all this time…” and it’s like it just happened last night; Alexander O’Neal and Cherrelle’s “Saturday Love” is on the turntables, and amidst another dark, musky mid-1980s Black college house party, a generation of overachievers took turns singing the parts of the two singers: “Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday love…” And if it was indeed a...
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The Fascinating Connection Between Drake, Marvin Gaye, and Frank Sinatra

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In April of 2011, Aubrey Drake Graham went into the studio to record the lead single to his second studio album Take Care. Produced by Noah James Shebib, the song's title "Marvin's Room" was a bit of a curiosity. "Marvin's Room," was in fact, recorded in Marvin's Room, a refurbished recording studio that was built in 1975 by the late Marvin Gaye.
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Revisitng Norman Mailer's 'White Negro' Essay

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By Mark Anthony Neal
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Understanding the paradoxes in Mailer's problematic portrait of Blackness. In his infamous essay "The White Negro" (1957), novelist and essayist Norman Mailer tried to explain the appearance of the "the hipster" on to the cultural scene of the 1950s. This was a subset of young white males, American existentialists as Mailer would have it, who came of age in the post-World War II era, and primarily in American cities.
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