Soul babies : black popular culture and the post-soul aesthetic

Soul babies : black popular culture and the post-soul aesthetic / Mark Anthony Neal.

This guide examines the world of black youth since the Black Power and Civil Rights era. Reading political events, musical works, social forms, media representations and literary productions.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Neal, Mark Anthony
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2002.
Subjects:	African Americans > Intellectual life. African Americans in popular culture. Popular culture > United States. African Americans > Social life and customs. Soul music > History and criticism. African American aesthetics. Postmodernism > United States. African Americans > Race identity. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture. African American aesthetics African Americans in popular culture African Americans > Intellectual life African Americans > Race identity African Americans > Social life and customs Popular culture Postmodernism Soul music United States Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

"You remind me of something" : toward a post-soul aesthetic
Sweetback's revenge : gangsters, blaxploitation, and Black middle-class identity
Baby mama (drama) and baby daddy (trauma) : post-soul gender politics
The post-soul intelligentsia : mass media, popular culture, and social praxis
Native tongues : voices of the post-soul intelligentsia
Epilogue. A soul baby in real time : encountering generation hip-hop on campus.