Black Power Music!: Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement

by Reiland Rabaka

Black Power Music Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement critically explores the soundtracks of the Black Power Movement as forms of "movement music." That is to say, much of classic Motown, soul, and funk music often mirrored and served as mouthpieces for the views and values, as well as the aspirations and frustrations, of the Black Power Movement. Black Power Music is also about the intense interconnections between Black popular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032184329
• ISBN13: 9781032184326
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"