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Soul babies : black popular culture and the post-soul aesthetic / Mark Anthony Neal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neal, Mark Anthony, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- African Americans in popular culture.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- 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:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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, Soul Babies offers a valuable new way of thinking about black popular culture and the legacy of the sixties.
- Contents:
- Cover; Soul babies: Black Popular Culture Andthe Post-soul Aesthetic; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. ""You Remind Me of Something"":toward a Post-soul Aesthetic; 2. Sweetback's Revenge:gangsters, Blaxploitation, and Black Middle-class Identity; 3. Baby Mama (drama) and Baby Daddy (trauma):post-soul Gender Politics; 4. The Post-soul Intelligentsia:mass Media, Popular Culture, and Social Praxis; 5. Native Tongues:voices of the Post-soul Intelligentsia; Epilogue. A Soul Baby in Real Time:encountering Generation Hip-hop on Campus; Notes; Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-210) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-29055-5
- 0-203-95062-3
- 1-299-05473-0
- 1-135-29048-2
- 9780203950623
- OCLC:
- 827207215
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