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Denise Sullivan

Denise Sullivan is an author, journalist and longtime columnist for the digital edition of Crawdaddy!---the first US magazine to cover rock music in the 1960s through a socio-political lens. Contributing to magazines, newspapers, and web resources, from rollingstone.com to the All Music Guide, her work has been published in the US, UK and EU.

Following the publication of Keep on Pushing, cultural criticism journal Pop Matters wrote, "Denise Sullivan represents the insider intellectual stamina of rock 'n' roll journalism without the pomp and pretense. She is the past and future of the form, rolled into one uncanny style."

Author of five titles, including The White Stripes: Sweethearts of the Blues (2004) and Shaman's Blues: The Art and Influences Behind Jim Morrison and the Doors (2014), she is a frequent guest speaker in classrooms and libraries, a curator of literary and music events, and an adjunct instructor in... Read More
the Media Studies Department at the University of San Francisco.
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Keep On Pushing
Keep On Pushing (4 Formats) ›
By Denise Sullivan
Trade Paper Price 16.95

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Published Jul 2011

Author Denise Sullivan explores the bond between music and social change and traces the evolution of protest music over the past five decades. The marriage of music and social change didn't originate with the civil rights and black power movements of the 1950s and 1960s, but never before had the relationship between the two been so dynamic. Black music altered the road to liberation for minorities, sparking creativity and resulting in a genre-encompassing poetry, jazz, folk, and rock along with a new brand of prideful and political soul and funk. Through extensive research and exclusive interviews with musician-activists such as Yoko Ono, Richie Havens, Janis Ian, and Buffy Sainte-Marie, this chronicle details the struggle that went into the creation of liberation music. A bittersweet narrative covering more than 50 years of fighting oppression through song, Keep On Pushing defines the soundtrack to revolution and the price paid to create it.