Review | Blue(s) Movie: Darnell Martin's "Cadillac Records"

1 December 2008 5:13 AM, PST | From IndieWIRE - Movies | See recent indieWIRE - Movies news

by Nick Pinkerton (December 1, 2008) When Syd Nathan, the CEO of King Records, died in 1968, James Brown, the label's greatest star, bought the desk from Nathan's office and had it fitted with a gold plaque reading "I Remember the Man Syd Nathan." Nathan was white, and Brown boastfully black--so how to account for this? If we were to believe the movies' official history of rock music, we can't; the narrative is one of the grudging black artist's innovation, white owner's exploitation, and cracker shyster's appropriation--the attitude summarized in Mos Def's insipid, ahistorical song "Rock 'n' Roll."

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