Burn, Baby! BURN!: The Autobiography of Magnificent Montague (Music in American Life) - Softcover

Montague, Magnificent; Baker, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252076842 ISBN 13: 9780252076848

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2009

Synopsis

With his dynamic on-air personality and his trademark cry of "Burn, baby! BURN!" before spinning the hottest new records, Magnificent Montague was the charismatic voice of soul music in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. In this memoir Montague recounts his momentous radio career, which ran from the era of segregation to that of the civil rights movement. He also tells the broader story of a life spent in the passionate pursuit of knowledge.

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About the Author

A founder of the National Association of Radio Announcers, Magnificent Montague (Nathaniel Montague) has been a disc jockey, a radio station owner, and a major collector of black memorabilia. He lives in Las Vegas.

 

Bob Baker is a staff writer and the former deputy metropolitan editor at the Los Angeles Times and the author of Newsthinking: The Secret of Making Your Facts Fall into Place.

From Booklist

The Magnificent Montague, a disc jockey extraordinaire, radio station owner, and collector of black memorabilia, lived a life that reflects both the struggle and the triumph of black America through the 1960s. Baker, who collaborated in writing Montague's autobiography, was a teenager growing up in California when he listened to the Magnificent Montague on the back end of the radio dial and became fascinated by his edgy soul. Some years later, his "whatever happened to" interest was the impetus for contacting Montague. What Baker discovered was a human phenomenon with stories beyond imagination, a poet, producer, performer, promoter, and radio station owner--edgier than Baker remembered. Montague's radio show reflected black taste and interests and became a sounding board for the same, but it also became an outlet through which many whites and other Americans began to adopt both the music and its meaning as their own. The cultural integration of America forms a substantial subplot of this fascinating look at the life of a disc jockey. Vernon Ford
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0252076842
• ISBN 13: 9780252076848
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216