It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television

Gayle Wald

Published by Duke University Press 2015

It's Been Beautiful

Soul! and Black Power Television

Gayle Wald

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375807

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About this book

In It's Been Beautiful, Gayle Wald examines Soul!, the first African American black variety television show on public television, which between 1968 and 1973 was instrumental in expressing the diversity of black popular culture, thought and politics, as well as helping to create the notion of black community.

Author / Editor information

Gayle Wald is Professor of English and American Studies at George Washington University. She is the author of Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in U.S. Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture.

Reviews

-- Mark Anthony Neal Chronicle Review

-- Pat Thomas The Wire

-- Aaron Cohen Chicago Reader

-- Matt Delmont Journal of American History

-- Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino Ethnic and Racial Studies

-- Aniko Bodroghkozy History Teacher

-- Rob Bowman IASPM@Journal

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Photographer’s Note A Vision of Soul! Chester Higgins Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. “It’s Been Beautiful” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Soul! and the 1960s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
2 The Black Community and the Affective Compact Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
3 “More Meaningful Than a Three-Hour Lecture” Music on Soul! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
4 Freaks Like Us Black Misfit Performance on Soul! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
5 The Racial State and the “Disappearance” of Soul! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Conclusion Soul! at the Center Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Other: 38 photographs

eBook

Published: April 25, 2015
ISBN: 9780822375807