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It's been beautiful : Soul! and black power television / Gayle Wald ; with photographs by Chester Higgins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wald, Gayle, 1965-
- Series:
- Console-ing passions book series. Spin offs.
- Spin offs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soul! (Television program).
- Soul music.
- African Americans in television broadcasting--United States--History.
- African Americans in television broadcasting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>In <I>It's Been Beautiful</I>, Gayle Wald examines <I>Soul!</I>, the first African American black variety television show on public television, which between 1968 and 1973 was instrumental in expressing the diversity of black popular culture, thought and politics, as well as helping to create the notion of black community.<BR></div>
- Contents:
- A vision of Soul! / by Chester Higgins
- "It's been beautiful"
- Soul! and the 1960s
- The black community and the affective compact
- More meaningful than a three-hour lecture?: music on Soul!
- Freaks like us: black misfit performance on Soul!
- The racial state and the "disappearance" of Soul!
- Soul! at the center.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781478093640
- 1478093641
- 9780822358374
- 0822358379
- 9780822375807
- 082237580X
- OCLC:
- 1139354379
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