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Just My Soul Responding - Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations (Paperback, New)
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Just My Soul Responding - Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations (Paperback, New)
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One of the most innovative and ambitious books to appear on the
civil rights and black power movements in America, "Just My Soul
Responding" also offers a major challenge to conventional histories
of contemporary black and popular music. Brian Ward explores in
detail the previously neglected relationship between Rhythm and
Blues, black consciousness, and race relations within the context
of the ongoing struggle for black freedom and equality in the
United States. Instead of simply seeing the world of black music as
a reflection of a mass struggle raging elsewhere, Ward argues that
Rhythm and Blues, and the recording and broadcasting industries
with which it was linked, formed a crucial public arena for battles
over civil rights, racial identities, and black economic
empowerment.
Combining unrivalled archival research with extensive oral
testimony, Ward examines the contributions of artists and
entrepreneurs like Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and
Berry Gordy to the organized black struggle, explaining what they
did for the Movement and--just as important--why they and most of
their peers failed to do more. In the process, he analyses the ways
in which various groups, from the SCLC to the Black Panthers,
tried--with very mixed results--to use Rhythm and Blues and the
politics of celebrity to further their cause. He also examines the
role that black-oriented radio played in promoting both Rhythm and
Blues and the Movement, and unravels the intricate connections
between the sexual politics of the music and the development of the
black freedom struggle.
This richly textured study of some of the most important music and
complex political events in America since World War II challenges
the belief that white consumption of black music necessarily helped
eradicate racial prejudice. Indeed, Ward argues that the popularity
of Rhythm and Blues among white listeners sometimes only reinforced
racial stereotypes, while noting how black artists actually
manipulated those stereotypes to increase their white audiences.
Ultimately, Ward shows how the music both reflected and affected
shifting perceptions of community, empowerment, identity, and
gender relations in America during the civil rights and black power
eras.
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