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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Foreword by Questlove
Introduction: The End
I. MAN, MUSIC
1. LIFE CAN BE SO NICE: His Life and Its Beginnings
2. BABY I’M A STAR: His Music and Its Beginnings
3. BRAND NEW GROOVE: His Music and Its Properties
4. MUSICOLOGY: His Music and Its Imitators
II. MEANING
5. GIRLS AND BOYS: Sex in His Music
6. WALK BY THE MIRROR: Self in His Music
7. WHAT TIME IS IT?: Others in His Music
8. WISH U HEAVEN: Virtue and Sin in His Music
9. AMERICA: Race and Politics in His Music
III. METHOD, MADNESS
10. WHAT’S MY NAME: Why He Changed His Name, and What That Wrought
11. MPLS: How His Hometown Made Him and How He, in Turn, Made It
12. CALL THE LAW: How He Grew Frustrated with Fans and the Internet
13. IT’S GONNA BE A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT: When He Was Onstage
14. THE WORK: How He Produced So Much for So Long
IV: MEMORY
15. SUCH A SHAME OUR FRIENDSHIP HAD TO END
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APPENDIX: LET’S WORK: Annotated Discography and Song Index
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