| Contents |
Toward a black public: movements, markets, and moderns -- Legislating freedom, commodifying struggle: civil rights, Black Power, and the struggle for black musical hegemony -- From protest to climax: Black Power, state repression, and black communities of resistance -- Soul for sale: the marketing of black musical expression -- Soul for real: authentic black voices in an age of deterioration -- Postindustrial soul: black popular music at the crossroads -- Postindustrial postscript: the digitized aural urban landscape. |
| Abstract |
This book is about communities under siege, but also communities engaged in various forms of resistance, institution-building and everyday pleasures. Beginning with the Be-Bop era, the author reads the story of "black communities" through the black tradition in popular music. Exploring the broad range of black cultural experience and expression, the author locates a history that challenges the view that hip-hop was the first black cultural movement to "speak truth to power." |
| Local note | Little-305611--305131011130J |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 98003639 |
| ISBN | 041592071X (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415920728 (pb : alk. paper) |
