"A dazzling array of essays that vastly expands our
understanding of the role of the media and popular culture in the
politics of race. From Andy Griffith to Amiri Baraka, from
Leadbelly's blues to "Sweet Sweetback's Baaadassss Song," this is a
brilliant and irreplaceable collection."--Timothy B. Tyson,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of "Radio Free Dixie:
Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power"
Stimulating and insightful, these essays on the relationship
among the media, popular culture, and the postwar African American
freedom struggle offer new perspectives on the nature of the Civil
Rights Movement and its legacies. At the same time, they suggest
how much the struggle itself shaped important trends in American
culture and mass media in the 1950s and 1960s. Bringing together a
range of voices seldom heard together, this book challenges readers
to reconsider the ways in which a simplistic "master narrative" of
the Movement has come to dominate popular, and even some scholarly,
understandings of the meaning of the freedom struggle.
CONTENTS
Introduction: Forgotten Wails and Master Narratives: Media,
Culture, and Memories of the Modern African American Freedom
Struggle, by Brian Ward
1. The Media and the Movement: Looking Back from the Southern
Front, by Julian Bond
2. A Media-Made Movement? Black Violence and Nonviolence in the
Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement, by Jenny Walker
3. Black-Oriented Radio and the Civil Rights Movement, by Stephen
Walsh
4. Reclaiming the South: Civil Rights Films and the New Red Menace,
by Allison Graham
5. Hip Like Me: Racial Cross-Dressing in Pop Music Before Elvis, by
David Chappell
6. "Climbing the Mountain Top" African American Blues and Gospel
Songs from the Civil Rights Years, by Guido van Rijn
7. Free Jazz: Musical Style and Liberationist Ethic, 1956-1965, by
Peter Townsend
8. Jazz and Soul, Race and Class, Cultural Nationalists and Black
Panthers: A Black Power Debate Revisited, by Brian Ward
9. Villains, Demons, and Social Bandits: White Fear of the Black
Cultural Revolution, by William L. Van Deburg
10. "Pimpin' Ain't Easy" Work, Play, and "Lifestylization" of the
Black Pimp Figure in Early 1970s America, by Eithne Quinn
11. Mau-Mauing the Filmmakers: Should Black Power Take the Rap for
Killing Nat Turner, the Movie? by Scot French
12. "The 1960s Echo On" Images of Martin Luther King Jr. as
Deployed by White Writers of Contemporary Fiction, by Sharon
Monteith
13. The Power of Martyrdom: The Incorporation of Martin Luther King
and His Philosophy into African American Literature, by Trudier
Harris
Brian Ward, associate professor of American history at the
University of Florida, is the author of "Just My Soul Responding:
Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations" and
coeditor of "The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights
Movement."
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