Questlove will publish a new book Music Is History, which sees The Roots drummer exploring one song per year since 1971.“Here we’ll look at the last 50 years of America through the prism of music, and the last 50 years of music through the prism of history,” Questlove said on Instagram, where he also revealed the book’s cover.Although it’s not yet known which 50 songs Questlove will cover, a press release said it will include “how Black identity reshaped itself during the blaxploitation era, […] the assembly-line nature of disco and its hostility to Black genius, [and] his own youth as a pop fan and what it taught him about America.”A post shared by Questlove (@questlove)Music Is History is published on October 12 via Abrams Image.
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