What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public CultureWhat the Music Said is a book about communities under siege, but also communities engaged in various forms of resistance, institution-building and everyday pleasures. Beginning with the Be-Bop era, Mark Anthony Neal reads the story of "black communities" through the black tradition in popular music. Exploring the broad range of black cultural experience and expression, Neal locates a history that challenges the view that hip-hop was the first black cultural movement to "speak truth to power." |
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What the music said: Black popular music and Black public culture
Crítica de los usuarios - Not Available - Book VerdictFor a large number of African Americans, black popular music was as much about history, sociology, and politics as it was about entertainment. As radio overtook the jukebox as a hit-making force and ... Leer comentario completo
Contenido
CHAPTER | 25 |
CHAPTER | 55 |
CHAPTER THREE | 85 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 101 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 125 |
CHAPTER | 159 |
Endnotes | 173 |
Index | 191 |
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What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture Mark Anthony Neal Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture Mark Anthony Neal Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture Mark Anthony Neal Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
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Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals Anthony Bogues Vista previa limitada - 2003 |