1960s High School Yearbook w/ GIL SCOTT-HERON ~ Small Talk at 125th and Lennox

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1960's High School annual
with great photographs and text showing the students and faculty, activities and sports, candids and graphics, pictures of school and surrounding, and local advertisement. And including teenager and future godfather of hip hop Gil Scott-Heron, who appears in class, basketball, and baseball photos. Great photos and period design, from a very small school.
Gil Scott-Heron
was an American
soul and jazz poet and
musician, known primarily for his work as a
spoken-word
performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician
Brian Jackson
featured a musical fusion of
jazz, blues, and soul,
as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both
rapping
and
melismatic
vocal styles by Scott-Heron. His own term for himself was "bluesologist"
which he defined as "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues".
His music, most notably on the albums
Pieces of a Man
and
Winter in America
in the early 1970s, influenced and foreshadowed later African-American music
genres such as
hip hop
and
new soul
. Scott-Heron is considered by many to be the first rapper/MC ever. His recording work received much critical acclaim, especially one of his best-known compositions, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". H
is aggressive, no-nonsense street poetry inspired a legion of intelligent rappers while his engaging songwriting skills placed him square in the
R&B
charts later in his career."
Scott-Heron remained active until his death, soon before releasing I'm New Here.
A memoir he had been working on for years up to the time of his death,
The Last Holiday
, was published posthumously in January 2012.
Scott-Heron received a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
Very Good condition
hardback issue with tight binding and text and clean pages; with no must or mildew or missing pieces, with mild shelf wear. Solid.
Great rarity giving a great look at the early life and times of one of the great Rock n Roll originals.
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