Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations

by Brian Ward

Book Overview

One of the most innovative and ambitious books to appear on the civil rights and black power movements in America, Just My Soul Responding also offers a major challenge to conventional histories of contemporary black and popular music. Brian Ward explores in detail the previously neglected relationship between Rhythm and Blues, black consciousness, and race relations within the context of the ongoing struggle for black freedom and equality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520212983
• ISBN13: 9780520212985
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"