What the music said

Description

What the Music Said is a book about communities under siege, but also communities engaged in various forms of resistance, institution-building and everyday pleasures. Beginning with the Be-Bop era, Mark Anthony Neal reads the story of "black communities" through the black tradition in popular music. Exploring the broad range of black cultural experience and expression, Neal locates a history that challenges the view that hip-hop was the first black cultural movement to "speak truth to power."

First Sentence

The time was perhaps right.

Subjects

Other Editions

• What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public CultureRoutledge1998-12-01
• What the music saidRoutledge1999
• What the Music SaidTaylor & Francis Group2013-01-01
• What the Music SaidTaylor & Francis Group2013-01-01
• What the Music SaidTaylor & Francis Group2013-01-01
• What the Music SaidTaylor & Francis Group2013-01-01
• What the Music SaidRoutledge2013-01-01