What the Music Said

Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture

• Author(s): Mark Anthony Neal,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 215
• ISBN_10: 1135204632
  ISBN_13: 9781135204631
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / Popular Culture , Social Science / Media Studies , History / General , Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Black Studies (Global) ,

Description:... First Published in 1999. In What the Music Said, Mark Anthony Neal provides a timely study of from be-bop to Hip Hop. This book looks at the last fifty years of black popular music and provides an intriguing portrait of the existential and social forces that drove black communities to make music in protest, reaction and to fulfil their material and spiritual needs.