What the music said
Subtitle: Black popular music and Black public culture
By: Mark Anthony Neal.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism; African Americans in popular culture
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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.