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Denise Sullivan

http://denisesullivan.com
Denise Sullivan is an author, journalist and longtime columnist for the digital edition of Crawdaddy!---the first US magazine to cover rock music in the 1960s through a socio-political lens. Contributing to magazines, newspapers, and web resources, from rollingstone.com to the All Music Guide, her work has been published in the US, UK and EU.

Following the publication of Keep on Pushing, cultural criticism journal Pop Matters wrote, "Denise Sullivan represents the insider intellectual stamina of rock 'n' roll journalism without the pomp and pretense. She is the past and future of the form, rolled into one uncanny style."

Author of five titles, including The White Stripes: Sweethearts of the Blues (2004) and Shaman's Blues: The Art and Influences Behind Jim Morrison and the Doors (2014), she is a frequent guest speaker in classrooms and libraries, a curator of literary and music events, and an adjunct instructor in... Read More
the Media Studies Department at the University of San Francisco.
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Keep On Pushing
Keep On Pushing (4 Formats) ›
By Denise Sullivan
Trade Paper Price 16.95

Trade Paper, PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket

Published Jul 2011

The marriage of music and social change didn’t originate with the movements for civil rights and Black Power in the 1950s and 1960s, but never before and never again was the relationship between the two so dynamic. In Keep On Pushing, author Denise Sullivan presents the voices of musician-activists from this pivotal era and the artists who followed in their footsteps to become the force behind contemporary liberation music. Joining authentic voices with a bittersweet narrative covering more than fifty years of fighting oppression through song, Keep On Pushing defines the soundtrack to revolution and the price the artists paid to create it.

 

Exclusive interviews with Yoko Ono, Richie Havens, Len Chandler, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Michael Franti, Solomon Burke, Wayne Kramer, John Sinclair, Phranc, plus musician-activist Elaine Brown on the Black Panthers, Nina Simone collaborator Al Schackman, Penelope Houston and Debora Iyall on San Francisco punk rock, Ed Pearl on the L.A. folk scene and the Ash Grove, and other musical and political icons.