Soul : Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure / Monique Guillory, Richard Green.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Green, Richard, Editor.

Guillory, Monique, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Race identity--Congresses.

African Americans.

African Americans in popular culture--Congresses.

African Americans in popular culture.

African American arts--Congresses.

African American arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No other word in the English language is more endemic to contemporary Black American culture and identity than "Soul". Since the 1960s Soul has been frequently used to market and sell music, food, and fashion. However, Soul also refers to a pervasive belief in the capacity of the Black body/spirit to endure the most trying of times in an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality. While some attention has been given to various genre manifestations of Soul-as in Soul music and food-no book has yet fully explored the discursive terrain signified by the term. In this broad-ranging, free-spirited book, a diverse group of writers, artists, and scholars reflect on the ubiquitous but elusive concept of Soul. Topics include: politics and fashion, Blaxploitation films, language, literature, dance, James Brown, and Schoolhouse Rock. Among the contributors are Angela Davis, Manning Marable, Paul Gilroy, Lyle Ashton Harris, Michelle Wallace, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Manthia Diawara, and dream hampton.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

By way of an introduction

Introduction: On black power

1. It's all in the timing: The latest moves, James brown's grooves, and the seventies race-consciousness movement in Salvador, Bahia-Brazil

2. Afro images: politics, fashion, and nostalgia

3. Notes of a prodigal son: James baldwin and the apostasy of soul

4. Fragmented souls: call and response with renee cox

5. Wailin' soul: Reggae's debt to black american music

6. Aunt Emma's Zuni recipe for soul transition

Introduction: Afrofem aesthetic manifested

7. From freedom to equality: the politics of race and class

8. From sesame street to schoolhouse rock: urban pedagogy and soul iconography in the 1970s

9. A sexual revolution: from punk rock to soul

10. Soul, transnationalism, and imaginings of revolution: Tanzanian ujamaa and the politics of enjoyment

11. Soul's revival: white soul, nostalgia, and the culturally constructed past

12. “Soul”: Aphotoessay

Introduction: Black pleasure—an oxymoron

13. Ethnophysicality,or an ethnography of somebody

14. Black bodies swingin’: race, gender, and jazz

15. Stoned soul picnic: Alvin ailey and the struggle to define official black culture

16. The legend of soul: long live curtis mayfield!

17. The stigmatization of “blaxploitation”

18. Question of a “soulful style”: interview with paul gilroy

19. "Ain’t we still got soul?” round table discussion with Greg Tate, portia maultsby, thulani davis,clyde taylor,and ishmael reed

20. From this ivory tower: race as a critical paradigm in the academy (a discussion in two acts)

Introduction

Act one

Act two: summaries of roundtable discussions by Houston A. baker jr., Phillip b. Harper, trudier Harris, and Tricia rose

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-3856-7

OCLC:

1163878698