Background
Arthur Kempton was born in 1949, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. He is the son of Murray Kempton, a columnist, author, and Mina Bluethenthal.
Cambridge, MA, United States
Arthur was formally schooled at Harvard University.
Cambridge, MA, United States
Arthur was formally schooled at Harvard University.
https://www.amazon.com/Boogaloo-Quintessence-American-Popular-2003-06-03/dp/B01FIZ0KCE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Arthur+Kempton&qid=1608119251&sr=8-1
2003
Arthur Kempton was born in 1949, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. He is the son of Murray Kempton, a columnist, author, and Mina Bluethenthal.
Arthur was formally schooled at Harvard University.
Arthur Kempton has been a superintendent in the Boston Public Schools and an educational consultant. He has also been a radio disc jockey and in Boston took over the legendary Sunday morning radio program "For Lovers Only" on the then WTBS. He has been a contributor to The New York Review of Books and has recently published Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music.
Boogaloo is a detailed history of Black American music using gospel patriarch Thomas Dorsey, soul singer Sam Cooke, entertainment mogul Berry Gordy and visionary George Clinton as touchstones for examining both black culture and black music against a larger social context. In the book, Kempton reveals the tensions between the sacred and the profane at the heart of "soul music," and the complex centrality of "Aframericans" in the evolution of our mass musical culture. What that culture is all about, who owns it, and who gets paid are issues addressed in his narrative, which Henry Louis Gates, Jr. calls a "comprehensive analysis of African-American popular music" and a "deep and gorgeous meditation on its aesthetics and business."
Kempton is married.
