Abstract
The history of rock and roll has long provided fertile ground for what the scholar K. Merinda Simmons identifies as a “‘post-black’ rhetorical schema” (2015: 13). As Simmons describes it, this schema advocates access, agency, flexibility, fluidity, mobility, and the ultimate autonomy of the individual, opposing what it asserts is a “problematically dated […] philosophy,” in particular America’s stark black-and-white racial structure (ibid.). From Maureen Mahon’s Right to Rock (2004), an ethno...
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