Civil Rights Music: The Soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement - Softcover

Rabaka, Reiland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498531806 ISBN 13: 9781498531801

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

This book critically examines the music and politics that emerged from the Civil Rights Movement as incredibly important sites and sources of spiritual rejuvenation, social organization, political education, and cultural transformation. The book is primarily preoccupied with that liminal, in-between, and often inexplicable place where black popular music and black popular movements meet and merge.

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Review

AlthoughReiland Rabaka focuses mainly on the music associated withcivil rights protest movements of the 1960s, his splendidnew book, Civil Rights Music, offers intriguinginsights about the closerelationship that has long existedbetween African-American popular music and African-Americanfreedomstruggles. This major addition to the civil rights literatureshowshowblack culture and blackpolitics cannot be fully understood separately because theyhave alwaystransformed one another.--Clayborne Carson, The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, Stanford University"

In this expert account of civil rights "movement music," Reiland Rabaka weaves an intricate tapestry around the musical stars and everyday people who struggled for black liberation. In so doing, he offers a new way of hearing and writing the social histories encoded in song.--Emily Lordi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Although Reiland Rabaka focuses mainly on the music associated with civil rights protest movements of the 1960s, his splendid new book, Civil Rights Music, offers intriguing insights about the close relationship that has long existed between African-American popular music and African-American freedom struggles. This major addition to the civil rights literature shows how black culture and black politics cannot be fully understood separately because they have always transformed one another.--Clayborne Carson, The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, Stanford University

About the Author

Reiland Rabaka is professor of African, African American, and Caribbean studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the author of The Hip Hop Movement: From R&B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation and Hip Hop's Amnesia: From Blues and the Black Women's Club Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Movement.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1498531806
• ISBN 13: 9781498531801
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272