Wald Gayle Wald

It's Been Beautiful (eBook, PDF)

Soul! and Black Power Television

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Produktbeschreibung

Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic forum for their radical politics. Broadcast on public television between 1968 and 1973, Soul!, helmed by pioneering producer and frequent host Ellis Haizlip, connected an array of black performers and public figures with a black viewing audience. In It's Been Beautiful, Gayle Wald tells the story of Soul!, casting this influential but overlooked program as a bold and innovative use of television to represent and critically explore black identity, culture, and feeling during a transitional period in the black freedom struggle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375807
• Artikelnr.: 54669805

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