Media, culture, and the modern African American freedom struggle
By: edited by Brian Ward.
Contributors: Ward, Brian, 1961-
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: African Americans and mass media.; African Americans -- Civil rights.; Mass media -- United States.; United States -- Ethnic relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

CONTENTS: 

Introduction: forgotten wails and master narratives: media, culture, and memories of the modern African American freedom struggle / Brian Ward -- The media and the movement: looking back from the Southern front / Julian Bond -- A media-made movement? Black violence and nonviolence in the historiography of the Civil Rights movement / Jenny Walker -- Black-oriented radio and the Civil Rights movement / Stephen Walsh -- Reclaiming the South: Civil Rights films and the new red menace / Allison Graham -- Hip like me: racial cross-dressing in pop music before Elvis / David L. Chappell -- "Climbing the mountain top": African American Blues and Gospel songs from the Civil Rights years / Buido van Rijn -- Free jazz: musical style and liberationist ethic, 1956-1965 / Peter Townsend -- Jazz and Soul, race and class, cultural nationalists and Black Panthers: a Black Power debate revisited / Brian Ward Villains, demons, and social bandits: white fear of the Black cultural revolution / William L. Van Deburg -- "Pimpin’ ain’t easy": work, play, and "lifestylization" of the Black pimp figure in early 1970s America / Eithne Quinn -- Mau-Mauing the filmmakers: should Black Power take the rap for killing Nat Turner, the movie / Scot French -- The 1960s echo on: images o Martin Luther King Jr.. as deployed by white writers of contemporary fiction / Sharon Monteith -- The power of martyrdom: the incorporation of Martin Luther King Jr. and his philosophy into African American literature / Trudier Harris.