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The Discreet Charm Of the Black Bourgeoisie: Barry White and Company

Penny Valentine, Street Life, 6 March 1976

WHEN YOUNG American blacks threw off their jeans, gave them to the white kids, and emerged supercool in their three-piece suits, brogues and cashmere sweaters the music they danced to and lived with changed too.

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