Just My Soul Responding Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations

Name: Just My Soul Responding Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
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ISBN: 9780520212985

ISBN-10: 0520212983

ISBN-13: 9780520212985

Edition: 1998

Authors: Brian Ward

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One of the most innovative and ambitious books to appear on the civil rights and black power movements in America,Just My Soul Respondingalso offers a major challenge to conventional histories of contemporary black and popular music. Brian Ward explores in detail the previously neglected relationship between Rhythm and Blues, black consciousness, and race relations within the context of the ongoing struggle for black freedom and equality in the United States. Instead of simply seeing the world of black music as a reflection of a mass struggle raging elsewhere, Ward argues that Rhythm and Blues, and the recording and broadcasting industries with which it was linked, formed a crucial public…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/6/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Deliver me from the days of old



"I hear you knocking ...": from randb to rock and roll



"Down in the alley": sex, success and sociology among black vocal groups and shouters



"Too much monkey business": race, rock and resistance



"Our day will come": black pop, white pop and the sounds of integration



People get ready



"Can I get a witness?": civil rights, soul and secularization



"Everybody needs somebody to love": southern soul, southern dreams, national stereotypes



"All for one, and one for all": black enterprise, racial politics and the business of soul



"On the outside looking in": Rhythm and Blues, celebrity politics and the civil rights movement



One nation (divisible) under a groove



"Tell it like it is": soul, funk and sexual politics in the black power era



"Get up, get into it, get involved": black music, black protest and the black power movement



"Take that to the bank": corporate soul, black capitalism and disco fever


Epilogue


Notes


Sources


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Index