Just my soul responding : rhythm and blues, Black consciousness, and race relations / Brian Ward.
"Instead of seeing black music as a mere reflection of mass struggle, Ward argues that [rhythm and blues] ... formed a crucial public arena for battles over civil rights, racial identity, indidivual pride, and economic empowerment."--Back cover.
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Berkeley [Calif.] :
University of California Press,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Deliver me from the days of old
- ch. 1. "I hear you knocking ... ": from r & b to rock and roll
- ch. 2. "Down in the alley": sex, success and sociology among black vocal groups and shouters
- ch. 3. "Too much monkey business": race, rock and resistance
- ch. 4. "Our day will come": black pop, white pop and the sounds of integration
- pt. 2. People get ready
- ch. 5. "Can I get a witness?": civil rights, soul and secularization
- ch. 6. "Everybody needs somebody to love": southern soul, southern dreams, national stereotypes
- ch. 7. "All for one, and one for all": black enterprise, racial politics and the business of soul
- ch. 8. "On the outside looking in": rhythm and blues, celebrity politics and the civil rights movement
- pt. 3. One nation (divisible) under a groove
- ch. 9. "Tell it like it is": soul, funk and sexual politics in the black power era
- ch. 10. "Get up, get into it, get involoved": black music, black protest and the black power movement
- ch. 11. "Take that to the bank": corporate soul, black capitalism and disco fever.