Civil Rights Music: The Soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement

by Reiland Rabaka

Book Overview

While there have been a number of studies that have explored African American "movement culture" and African American "movement politics," rarely has the mixture of black music and black politics or, rather, black music an as expression of black movement politics, been explored across several genres of African American "movement music," and certainly not with a central focus on the major soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement: gospel, freedom songs,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498531784
• ISBN13: 9781498531788
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"