What the Music Said

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.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Routledge

Editions

8

Pages

336

ISBN

9780415920711

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