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Title Statement | Rock 'n' roll heretic: the life and times of Rory Tharpe : a novel / Sikivu Hutchinson. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Rock n roll heretic Rock and roll heretic |
Author | Hutchinson, Sikivu |
Publication | Los Angeles, CA: Infidel Books,2021. |
Extent of Item | v, 332 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780578852362 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr06501271 |
General Notes | "A homage to pioneering guitarist Rosetta Tharpe"--Back cover. |
Summary | "It's the late 1970s, and ex-Pentecostal Black female electric guitarist Rory Tharpe navigates the cutthroat world of corporate rock, dive bars, dusk-to-dawn recording sessions, and shady contracts as she travels the nation in a dilapidated tour bus with her bickering, boozing all-male band. Much-imitated and little-credited, Rory is in a late career tailspin when she goes on tour with international superstar Jude Justis, a white woman blues-rock singer who has built a turbulent mega-platinum career out of stealing from Black musicians. Broke and frustrated by the racism, sexism, and ageism of the rock boys' club, Rory warily joins forces with Jude. She then takes a detour through the painful past she shares with childhood nemesis Divinity Mason Mulvaney, a maverick pastor at the helm of the mega church enterprise Revivals, Inc. An homage to pioneering guitarist Rosetta Tharpe, Rock 'n' Roll Heretic is a bracing look at the power politics, heartbreak, and hypocrisy confronting a queer Black woman visionary at the intersection of music and commerce, faith and heresy, in a segregated music industry that eats its Black artists."--Back cover. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | African American Pentecostals--Fiction |
African American women singers--Fiction | |
Blues musicians--Fiction--United States | |
Lesbians--Fiction | |
Music and race--Fiction | |
Women guitarists--Fiction | |
Women in the music trade--Fiction--United States | |
By Genre | Novels |