Wald It's Been Beautiful

Soul! and Black Power Television
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7580-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Spin Offs

In It's Been Beautiful, Gayle Wald examines Soul!, the first African American black variety television show on public television, which between 1968 and 1973 was instrumental in expressing the diversity of black popular culture, thought and politics, as well as helping to create the notion of black community.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wald, Gayle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations vii

Photographer's Note: A Vision of Soul! / Chester Higgins ix

Introduction. "It's Been Beautiful" 1

1. Soul! and the 1960s 36

2. The Black Community and the Affective Compact 70

3. "More Meaningful Than a Three-Hour Lecture": Music on Soul! 104

4. Freaks Like Us: Black Misfit Performance on Soul! 145

5. The Racial State and the "Disappearance" of Soul! 181

Conclusion. Soul! at the Center 213

Acknowledgments 221

Notes 225

Bibliography 253

Index 265

Über Autor(innen)

Gayle Wald is Professor of English and American Studies at George Washington University. She is the author of Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in U.S. Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture.