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Record Nr.

UNINA9910743210403321

Autore

Wald Gayle <1965->

Titolo

It's been beautiful : Soul! and black power television / / Gayle Wald ; with photographs by Chester Higgins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham ; ; London : , : Duke University Press, , 2015

ISBN

1-4780-9364-1

0-8223-5837-9

0-8223-7580-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Spin offs

Altri autori (Persone)

HigginsChester

Disciplina

791.45/72

791.4572

Soggetti

Soul music

African Americans in television broadcasting - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A vision of Soul! / by Chester Higgins -- "It's been beautiful" -- Soul! and the 1960s -- The black community and the affective compact -- More meaningful than a three-hour lecture?: music on Soul! -- Freaks like us: black misfit performance on Soul! -- The racial state and the "disappearance" of Soul! -- Soul! at the center.

Sommario/riassunto

<div>In <I>It's Been Beautiful</I>, Gayle Wald examines <I>Soul!</I>, 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.<BR></div>