Gayle Wald

It's Been Beautiful

Soul! and Black Power Television

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Produktbeschreibung

Gayle Wald is Professor of English and American Studies at George Washington University. She is the author of Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in U.S. Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 149mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780822358374
• ISBN-10: 0822358379
• Artikelnr.: 41121114

Autorenporträt

Gayle Wald is Professor of English and American Studies at George Washington University. She is the author of Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in U.S. Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations  vii
Photographer's Note: A Vision of Soul! / Chester Higgins  ix
Introduction. "It's Been Beautiful"  1
1. Soul! and the 1960s  36
2. The Black Community and the Affective Compact  70
3. "More Meaningful Than a Three-Hour Lecture": Music on Soul!  104
4. Freaks Like Us: Black Misfit Performance on Soul!  145
5. The Racial State and the "Disappearance" of Soul!  181
Conclusion. Soul! at the Center  213
Acknowledgments  221
Notes  225
Bibliography  253
Index  265