What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture

Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Dedication
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Acknowledgments
 Introduction: Toward A Black Public: Movements, Markets, and Moderns
 The Roots and Early Manifestations of the Black Public Sphere
 Post-Reconstruction and Black Public Life
 Migration, Industrialization, and The Black Public Sphere
 Technology, Mass Markets, and the Black Public Sphere
 The Black Public at War: Bebop and Executive Order 8802
 Chapter One. Legislating Freedom, Commodifying Struggle: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Struggle for Black Musical Hegemony. The Chitlin' Circuit: Memory, Community, and MigrationSoul as Struggle: Soul Music, Polytonality, and the Discourse(s) of Black Resistance
 The Sound of Young America: Motown and the Discourse of Black Middle-Class Mobility
 The Transformation of King: Black Power, the Urban North, and Mass-Market Mediation
 Chapter Two. From Protest to Climax: Black Power, State Repression, and Black Communities of Resistance
 Agents of Repression: Hoover, Nixon, and Black Communities of Resistance
 "What's Going On": Mass Markets, Social Movements, and the Marvin Gaye Trilogy. How Can I Ease the Pain: Black Popular Music and the Black Feminist MovementIn Search of Community: Country Preacher, "The Ghetto," and Amazing Grace
 Chapter Three. Soul for Sale: The Marketing of Black Musical Expression
 Soul in the Hood: WattStax and Black Corporate Responsibility
 Motown Goes Hollywood: Diana Ross and Black Middle-Class Desire
 Soul for Sale: Blackness, Blaxploitation, and the Commodification of Soul
 Chapter Four. Soul for Real: Authentic Black Voices in an Age of Deterioration. The Postindustrial Moment: Black Flight, Communal Dis-location, and the African-American DiasporaSpirits in the Material World: Gil Scott-Heron and Stevie Wonder
 In Search of Chocolate Cities: Parliament/Funkadelic and Black Nationalist Urban Utopias
 Dancing Across the Diaspora: Philadelphia International Records and Black Communal Exchange
 Chapter Five. Postindustrial Soul: Black Popular Music at the Crossroads
 Quiet Storms: Soul and Survival in the Suburbs
 Postindustrial Context(s): Hip-Hop, Postindustrialism, and the Commodification of the Black Underclass. The Discourse(s) of Hip-Hop: Resistance, Consumption, and African-American Youth CultureFear of a Black Commodity: The Policing, Criminalization, and Commodification of Hip-Hop Culture
 Postindustrial Nostalgia: Mass Media, Memory, and Community
 Chapter Six. Postindustrial Postscript: The Digitized Aural Urban Landscape
 Postindustrial Critique: Hip-Hop as Public Sphere
 Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation: One Diaspora Under a Groove
 Endnotes
 References
 Index.