Black Power Music!: Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement
Reiland Rabaka, "Black Power Music!: Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement"
English | ISBN: 1032184310 | 2022 | 208 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1032184310 | 2022 | 208 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Black Power Music! Protest Songs, Message Music, and theBlack Power Movement critically explores the soundtracks of the Black Power Movement as forms of movement music. That is to say, much of classic Motown, soul, and funk music often mirrored and served as mouthpieces for the views and values, as well as the aspirations and frustrations, of the Black Power Movement. Black Power Music! is also about the intense interconnections between Black popular culture and Black political culture, both before and after the Black Power Movement, and the ways in which the Black Power Movement in many senses symbolizes the culmination of centuries of African American politics creatively combined with, and ingeniously conveyed through, African American music. Consequently, the term Black Power music can be seen as a code word for