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Just my soul responding : rhythm and blues, Black consciousness, and race relations / Brian Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ward, Brian, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhythm and blues music--History and criticism.
- Rhythm and blues music.
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Music and race.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 600p. ) ill., facsim., ports.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Annotation A study of the links between Black consciousness and Black American popular music from the advent of R & B in the 1950s to the militant hip-hop groups of the 1990s.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Deliver me from the days of old: "I hear you knocking..." - from R&B to Rock and Roll; "Down in the alley" - sex, success and sociology among black male vocal groups and shouters; "Too much monkey business" - race, rock and resistance. Part 2 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. Part 3 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 and the black power movement; "Take that to the bank" - black capitalism, corporate soul and disco fever. Epilogue: "How I keep from going under" - black music in the post-revolutionary era.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-548) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-203-21445-5
- 0-585-46044-2
- 1-280-18667-4
- 9780203214459
- OCLC:
- 437073858
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