Media, culture, and the modern African American freedom struggle / edited by Brian Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ward, Brian, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans and mass media.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

Mass media--United States.

Mass media.

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

viii, 312 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2001]

Summary:

Stimulating and insightful, these essays on the relationship among the media, popular culture, and the postwar African American freedom struggle offer new perspectives on the nature of the Civil Rights Movement and its legacies. At the same time, they suggest how much the struggle itself shaped important trends in American culture and mass media in the 1950s and 1960s. Bringing together a range of voices seldom heard together, this book challenges readers to reconsider the ways in which a simplistic "master narrative" of the Movement has come to dominate popular, and even some scholarly, understandings of the meaning of the freedom struggle.

Contents:

Introduction: forgotten wails and master narratives: media, culture, and memories of the modern African American freedom struggle / Brian Ward

The media and the movement: looking back from the Southern front / Julian Bond

A media-made movement? Black violence and nonviolence in the historiography of the Civil Rights movement / Jenny Walker

Black-oriented radio and the Civil Rights movement / Stephen Walsh

Reclaiming the South: Civil Rights films and the new red menace / Allison Graham

Hip like me: racial cross-dressing in pop music before Elvis / David L. Chappell

"Climbing the mountain top": African American Blues and Gospel songs from the Civil Rights years / Buido van Rijn

Free jazz: musical style and liberationist ethic, 1956-1965 / Peter Townsend

Jazz and Soul, race and class, cultural nationalists and Black Panthers: a Black Power debate revisited / Brian Ward

Villains, demons, and social bandits: white fear of the Black cultural revolution / William L. Van Deburg

"Pimpin' ain't easy": work, play, and "lifestylization" of the Black pimp figure in early 1970s America / Eithne Quinn

Mau-Mauing the filmmakers: should Black Power take the rap for killing Nat Turner, the movie / Scot French

The 1960s echo on: images o Martin Luther King Jr.. as deployed by white writers of contemporary fiction / Sharon Monteith

The power of martyrdom: the incorporation of Martin Luther King Jr. and his philosophy into African American literature / Trudier Harris.

Notes:

Inlcudes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813020743

OCLC:

45879537