Ward Just My Soul Responding

Rhythm And Blues, Black Consciousness And Race Relations
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-135-37003-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 616 Seiten

Brian Ward is Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.; This book is intended for american studies, American history postwar social and cultural history, political history, Black history, Race and Ethnic studies and Cultural studies together with the general trade music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.