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Author: Mark Anthony Neal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.600kg
ISBN: 9780415926577
ISBN 10: 0415926572
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 02 November 2001
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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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 Information
Mark 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.
