What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture
, by Neal,Mark AnthonyNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780415920711 | 041592071X
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/1/1998
What the Music Saidis 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."