Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure

No Other Word In The English Language Is More Endemic To Contemporary Black American Culture And Identity Than Soul. Since The 1960s Soul Has Been Frequently Used To Market And Sell Music, Food, And Fashion. However, Soul Also Refers To A Pervasive Belief In The Capacity Of The Black Body/spirit To Endure The Most Trying Of Times In An Ongoing Struggle For Freedom And Equality. While Some Attention Has Been Given To Various Genre Manifestations Of Soul-as In Soul Music And Food-no Book Has Yet Fully Explored The Discursive Terrain Signified By The Term. In This Broad-ranging, Free-spirited Book, A Diverse Group Of Writers, Artists, And Scholars Reflect On The Ubiquitous But Elusive Concept Of Soul. Topics Include: Politics And Fashion, Blaxploitation Films, Language, Literature, Dance, James Brown, And Schoolhouse Rock. Among The Contributors Are Angela Davis, Manning Marable, Paul Gilroy, Lyle Ashton Harris, Michelle Wallace, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Manthia Diawara, And Dream Hampton. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- By Way Of An Introduction -- Introduction: On Black Power -- 1. It's All In The Timing: The Latest Moves, James Brown's Grooves, And The Seventies Race-consciousness Movement In Salvador, Bahia-brazil -- 2. Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, And Nostalgia -- 3. Notes Of A Prodigal Son: James Baldwin And The Apostasy Of Soul -- 4. Fragmented Souls: Call And Response With Renee Cox -- 5. Wailin' Soul: Reggae's Debt To Black American Music -- 6. Aunt Emma's Zuni Recipe For Soul Transition -- Introduction: Afrofem Aesthetic Manifested -- 7. From Freedom To Equality: The Politics Of Race And Class -- 8. From Sesame Street To Schoolhouse Rock: Urban Pedagogy And Soul Iconography In The 1970s -- 9. A Sexual Revolution: From Punk Rock To Soul -- 10. Soul, Transnationalism, And Imaginings Of Revolution: Tanzanian Ujamaa And The Politics Of Enjoyment -- 11. Soul's Revival: White Soul, Nostalgia, And The Culturally Constructed Past -- 12. “soul”: Aphotoessay -- Introduction: Black Pleasure—an Oxymoron -- 13. Ethnophysicality,or An Ethnography Of Somebody -- 14. Black Bodies Swingin’: Race, Gender, And Jazz -- 15. Stoned Soul Picnic: Alvin Ailey And The Struggle To Define Official Black Culture -- 16. The Legend Of Soul: Long Live Curtis Mayfield! -- 17. The Stigmatization Of “blaxploitation” -- 18. Question Of A “soulful Style”: Interview With Paul Gilroy -- 19. Ain’t We Still Got Soul?” Round Table Discussion With Greg Tate, Portia Maultsby, Thulani Davis,clyde Taylor,and Ishmael Reed -- 20. From This Ivory Tower: Race As A Critical Paradigm In The Academy (a Discussion In Two Acts) -- Introduction -- Act One -- Act Two: Summaries Of Roundtable Discussions By Houston A. Baker Jr., Phillip B. Harper, Trudier Harris, And Tricia Rose -- Contributors -- Index Monique Guillory, Richard Green. English