The Black musicians on WLAC reached ears across the United States, including those of a young Bob Dylan.“When it really started changing the world is when white teenagers joined that community,” says Ms. But he came to oppose segregation after daily interactions with performers such as Louis Jordan and B.B. In his youth, he’d performed in minstrel shows in blackface. Blackman was motivated by profit, not social justice. Blackman’s granddaughter Paula Blackman, who wrote the book.Mr. He persuaded WLAC in Nashville, Tennessee, to begin nighttime broadcasts of “race music.”“There were so many African Americans living in rural poverty, and this gave them. In 1946, radio advertising salesperson Gab Blackman spotted an untapped market: Black listeners. Can music change the world, as Beethoven claimed? A new book, “Night Train to Nashville,” chronicles how a radio station did just that.
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