Black Man (song)
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| "Black Man" | ||||||||||
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| Song by Stevie Wonder | ||||||||||
| Genre | Soul, funk, disco | |||||||||
| Length | 8:30 | |||||||||
| Writer | Stevie Wonder, Gary Byrd | |||||||||
| Producer | Stevie Wonder | |||||||||
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Black Man is a track on the 1976 Stevie Wonder album Songs in the Key of Life. The song was written by Wonder and Gary Byrd.
The song was written about Wonder's desire for worldwide interracial harmony,[1] and criticism of racism,[2] as evidenced in earlier works such as "Living for the City". The lyrics referred prominently to Crispus Attucks, widely considered a martyr of the American Revolution. Wonder deliberately chose this theme as the United States Bicentennial was underway at the time of recording.[3]
References
- ↑ Werner, Craig Hansen (2006). A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America. University of Michigan Press. p. 187. ISBN 9780472031474.
- ↑ Gulla, Bob (2008). Icons of R&B and Soul: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles ; The Temptations ; The Supremes ; Stevie Wonder. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 322. ISBN 9780313340468.
- ↑ Wilson, Ivy G (2011). Specters of Democracy:Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S. Oxford University Press. p. 169. ISBN 9780199843725.
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