| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
By way of an introduction / Monique Guillory and Richard C. Green -- Introduction : on Black power / Steven Drukman -- It's all in the timing : the latest moves, James Brown's grooves, and the seventies race-consciousness movement in Salvador, Bahia-Brazil / Anna Scott -- Afro images : politics, fashion, and nostalgia / Angela Y. Davis -- Notes of a prodigal son : James Baldwin and the apostasy of soul / Nathan L. Grant -- Fragmented souls : call and response with Renée Cox / Artress Bethany White -- Wailin' soul : reggae's debt to Black American music / Grant Fared -- Aunt Emma's Zuni recipe for soul transition / Carl Hancock Rux -- Introduction : Afrofem aesthetic manifested / Tracie Morris -- From freedom to equality : the politics of race and class / Manning Marable -- From Sesame Street to Schoolhouse Rock : urban pedagogy and soul iconography in the 1970s / David Serlin -- A sexual revolution : from punk rock to soul / Elena Georgiou -- Soul, transnationalism, and imaginings of revolution : Tanzanian Ujamaa and the politics of enjoyment / May Joseph -- Soul's revival : white soul, nostalgia, and the culturally constructed past / Gayle Wald -- "Soul" : a photo essay / Marilyn Nance -- Introduction : Black pleasure : an oxymoron / Ishmael Reed -- Ethnophysicality, or an ethnography of some body / John L. Jackson Jr. -- Black bodies swingin' : race, gender, and jazz / Monique Guillory -- Stoned soul picnic : Alvin Ailey and the struggle to define official Black culture / Thomas Defrantz -- The legend of soul : long live Curtis Mayfield! / Michael A. Gonzales -- The stigmatization of "Blaxploitation" / Richard Simon -- Question of a "soulful style" : interview with Paul Gilroy / Richard C. Green and Monique Guillory -- "Ain't we still got soul?" Roundtable discussion with Greg Tate, Portia Maultsby, Thulani Davis, Clyde Taylor, and Ishmael Reed |
| 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-spi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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African Americans -- Race identity -- Congresses
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African Americans in popular culture -- Congresses
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African American arts -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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African American arts
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African Americans in popular culture
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African Americans -- Race identity
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Politik
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Soul
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Schwärze
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Guillory, Monique, 1969- editor.
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Green, Richard C., 1967- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780814738566 |
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0814738567 |
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9780814732632 |
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0814732631 |
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