Black Power Music!

Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement

Black Power Music!
Reiland Rabaka
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h234 x 156mm - 208pg
14 Jun 2022 UK
9781032184319
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* Intense focus on the emergence of a new, post-Civil Rights Movement black identity * Offers an alternative history and musicology of the Black Power Movement * Defines Black Power Music - a musical and political reality * Explores the intense interconnections between black popular culture and black political culture * Essential reading for all students engaged in black popular music studies, African American studies, popular culture studies, ethnic studies as well as sociology, ethnomusicology and political science.
Black Power Music! is a boldly conceived, brilliantly executed, and surpassingly timely volume that eloquently explains how Black Power Music was able to reconstitute African American culture in the decade 1965 - 1975. Professor Rabaka' s originality in using ideas from disciplines traditionally kept apart enables him to find the consilience that binds these disciplines together vis-a-vis black power music, to succeed where others have not. The volume' s ambitious thesis is as compelling as it is clear, and the discussion of the cultural and intellectual politics of sex and gender in Chapters 4 and 5 ought to be required reading in many disciplines. John Michael Cooper, Southwestern University, USABlack Power Music! is a cogent studied of the connections between the Black Power Movement and Black popular music of the 1960s and 1970s. Taking a cue from Black Power and Black Arts participants themselves, it successfully argues that much of that music was an integral part of Black Power. While that argument has been made previously, never before have the material links between Black power and Black popular music been studied in such detail. James Smethurst, W. E. B. Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst "Black Power Music! is a boldly conceived, brilliantly executed, and surpassingly timely volume that eloquently explains how Black Power Music was able to reconstitute African American culture in the decade 1965-1975. Professor Rabaka' s originality in using ideas from disciplines traditionally kept apart enables him to find the consilience that binds these disciplines together vis-a-vis black power music, to succeed where others have not. The volume' s ambitious thesis is as compelling as it is clear, and the discussion of the cultural and intellectual politics of sex and gender in Chapters 4 and 5 ought to be required reading in many disciplines. "John Michael Cooper, Southwestern University, USA"Black Power Music! is a cogent study of the connections between the Black Power Movement and Black popular music of the 1960s and 1970s. Taking a cue from Black Power and Black Arts participants themselves, it successfully argues that much of that music was an integral part of Black Power. While that argument has been made previously, never before have the material links between Black power and Black popular music been studied in such detail. "James Smethurst, W. E. B. Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Reiland Rabaka is Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Founder and Director of the Center for African & African American Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also a Research Fellow in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Rabaka has published 17 books and more than 85 scholarly articles, book chapters, and essays. His books include Civil Rights Music, Hip Hop' s Inheritance, Hip Hop' s Amnesia, The Hip Hop Movement, Africana Critical Theory, Against Epistemic Apartheid: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology, Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon' s Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization, Concepts of Cabralism: Amilcar Cabral and Africana Critical Theory, The Negritude Movement, The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism, and Du Bois: A Critical Introduction. His cultural criticism, social commentary, and political analysis have been featured in print, radio, television, and online media venues such as NPR, PBS, BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MTV, BET, VH1, The Guardian, and USA Today, among others.

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