While there have been a number of studies that have explored
African American "movement culture" and African American "movement
politics," rarely has the mixture of black music and black politics
or, rather, black music an as expression of black movement
politics, been explored across several genres of African American
"movement music," and certainly not with a central focus on the
major soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement: gospel, freedom
songs, rhythm & blues, and rock & roll. Here the mixture of
music and politics emerging out of the Civil Rights Movement is
critically examined as an incredibly important site and source of
spiritual rejuvenation, social organization, political education,
and cultural transformation, not simply for the non-violent civil
rights soldiers of the 1950s and 1960s, but for organic
intellectual-artist-activists deeply committed to continuing the
core ideals and ethos of the Civil Rights Movement in the
twenty-first century. Civil Rights Music: The Soundtracks of the
Civil Rights Movement is primarily preoccupied with that liminal,
in-between, and often inexplicable place where black popular music
and black popular movements meet and merge. Black popular movements
are more than merely social and political affairs. Beyond social
organization and political activism, black popular movements
provide much-needed spaces for cultural development and artistic
experimentation, including the mixing of musical and other
aesthetic traditions. "Movement music" experimentation has
historically led to musical innovation, and musical innovation in
turn has led to new music that has myriad meanings and
messages-some social, some political, some cultural, some spiritual
and, indeed, some sexual. Just as black popular movements have a
multiplicity of meanings, this book argues that the music that
emerges out of black popular movements has a multiplicity of
meanings as well.
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