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Overview"Soul Babies examines the world of black youth since the Black Power and Civil Rights era. Reading political events, musical works, social forms, media representations and literary productions, Mark Anthony Neal introduces a strong new concept of the ""Post-Soul Aesthetic"" to black cultural criticism that gives a name to the values and concerns of African Americans since the 1960s. In the films of Spike Lee, and the music or R. Kelley, the rise of a ""new"" urban working class, and the formation of ""Hip-Hop"" intellectuals, Neal argues that the ""Post-Soul Asthetic"" is repudating much of the black modern traditions and focusing instead on contemporary problems of culture and identity. traditions and focuses instead on contemporary problems of culture and identity." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark Anthony NealPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.600kg ISBN: 9780415926577ISBN 10: 0415926572 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 02 November 2001 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. ""You Remind Me of Something"": Towards a Post-Soul Aesthetic. 2. Sweetback's Revenge: Gangsters, Blacxploitation, and Black Middle Class Identity. 3. Baby Mama (Drama) and Baby Daddy (Trauma): Post-Soul Gender Politics. 4. The Post-Soul Intelligentsia: Mass Media, Popular culture and Social Praxis. 5. Native Tongues: Voices of the Post-Soul Intelligentsia. 6. A Soul Baby in Real Time: Generation Hip-hop on Campus. Epilogue."Reviews... validates Neal's intellectual and practical contribution to the fields of popular culture and Black cultural studies. <br>-Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, American Studies, Fall 2002 <br> [Neal] makes a significant theoretical contribution to the existing intellectual work on Black popular culture. <br>-Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, American Studies, Fall 2002 <br>... .carves out a well-defined intellectual and theoretical space for the post-soul generation--the soul babies of history. <br>-Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, American Studies, Fall 2002 <br> this is a subtle and refreshing look at the aesthetic sensibilities of Generation Hip-Hop . . .. <br>-Choice, June 2002 <br> Mark Anthony Neal is that rare and gifted writer and thinker who can move easily between street corners and academia, hip-hop heads and high-brow intellectuals, as well as pop cultural markers as different as Good Times and Batman. Indeed, Soul Babies recalls the best iconoclastic work of W.E.B. DuBois, E. Franklin Frazier, and bell hooks. Yes, Neal is that kind of intellectual giant-in-the-making: brutally honest with razor-sharp insights, and so ahead of his time that he is one of the voices we will look to many years from now for interpretations of these first days of the 21st century.. <br>-Kevin Powell, editor of Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature <br> ... validates Neal's intellectual and practical contribution to the fields of popular culture and Black cultural studies. -Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, American Studies, Fall 2002 [Neal] makes a significant theoretical contribution to the existing intellectual work on Black popular culture. -Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, American Studies, Fall 2002 ... .carves out a well-defined intellectual and theoretical space for the post-soul generation--the soul babies of history. -Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, American Studies, Fall 2002 this is a subtle and refreshing look at the aesthetic sensibilities of Generation Hip-Hop . . .. -Choice, June 2002 Mark Anthony Neal is that rare and gifted writer and thinker who can move easily between street corners and academia, hip-hop heads and high-brow intellectuals, as well as pop cultural markers as different as Good Times and Batman. Indeed, Soul Babies recalls the best iconoclastic work of W.E.B. DuBois, E. Franklin Frazier, and bell hooks. Yes, Neal is that kind of intellectual giant-in-the-making: brutally honest with razor-sharp insights, and so ahead of his time that he is one of the voices we will look to many years from now for interpretations of these first days of the 21st century.. -Kevin Powell, editor of Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature Author InformationMark Anthony Neal is Associate Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Program in African and African-American Studies at Duke University. Neal is the author of Whatthe Music Said, Soul Babies, and Songs in the Key ofBlack Life, all published by Routledge. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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