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What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture
What the Music Said Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture Author:Mark Anthony Neal 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 cult... more »ural 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."« less