It's Been Beautiful : Soul! and Black Power Television /

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 pub...

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Main Author: Wald, Gayle, 1965-
Other Authors: Higgins, Chester
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Duke University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • A vision of Soul! / by Chester Higgins
  • "It's been beautiful"
  • Soul! and the 1960s
  • The black community and the affective compact
  • "More meaningful than a three-hour lecture": music on Soul!
  • Freaks like us: black misfit performance on Soul!
  • The racial state and the "disappearance" of Soul!
  • Soul! at the center.