What the Music Said

Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-92072-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

First Published in 1999. In What the Music Said, Mark Anthony Neal provides a timely study of from be-bop to Hip Hop. This book looks at the last fifty years of black popular music and provides an intriguing portrait of the existential and social forces that drove black communities to make music in protest, reaction and to fulfil their material and spiritual needs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neal, Mark Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Volksmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 Legislating Freedom, Commodifying Struggle; Chapter 2 From Protest to Climax; Chapter 3 Soul for Sale; Chapter 4 Soul for Real; Chapter 5 Postindustrial Soul; Chapter 6 Postindustrial Postscript;

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Anthony Neal is Associate Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Program in African and African-American Studies at Duke University. Neal is the author of What the Music Said, Soul Babies, and Songs in the Key of Black Life, all published by Routledge.