Just My Soul Responding : Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations.

A study of the links between Black consciousness and Black American popular music from the advent of R & B in the 1950s to the militant hip-hop groups of the 1990s.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ward, Brian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 1998.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780203214459
0203214455
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; "I hear you knocking": from rb to rock and roll; "Down in the alley": sex, success and sociology among black vocal groups and shouters; "Too much monkey business": race, rock and resistance; "Our day will come": black pop, white pop and the sounds of integration; "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"Tell it like it is": soul, funk and sexual politics in the black power era; "Get up, get into it, get involved": black music, black protest and the black power movement; "Take that to the bank": corporate soul, black capitalism and disco fever; Epilogue; Notes; Sources; Permissions; Index.