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Soul babies : Black poplular culture and the post-soul aesthetic / Mark Anthony Neal.
Van Pelt Library E185.615 .N35 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neal, Mark Anthony.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- African Americans in popular culture.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- United States.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- Soul music--History and criticism.
- Soul music.
- African American aesthetics.
- Postmodernism--United States.
- Postmodernism.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 221 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Summary:
- In "Soul Babies, " Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era. He traces the emergence of what he calls a "post-soul aesthetic, " a transformation of values that marked a profound change in African American thought and experience. Lively and provocative, this book offers a valuable new way of thinking about black popular culture and the legacy of the sixties.
- Contents:
- 1. "You Remind Me of Something": Toward a Post-Soul Aesthetic 1
- 2. Sweetback's Revenge: Gangsters, Blaxploitation, and Black Middle-Class Identity 23
- 3. Baby Mama (Drama) and Baby Daddy (Trauma): Post-Soul Gender Politics 57
- 4. The Post-Soul Intelligentsia: Mass Media, Popular Culture, and Social Praxis 99
- 5. Native Tongues: Voices of the Post-Soul Intelligentsia 131
- Epilogue: A Soul Baby in Real Time: Encountering Generation Hip-Hop on Campus 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415926572
- 0415926580
- OCLC:
- 46386125
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