Just My Soul Responding

Brian Ward

Part 1 Deliver me from the days of old: I hear you knocking... - from R&B to Rock and Roll; Down in the alley - sex, success and sociology among black male vocal groups and shouters; Too much monkey business - race, rock and resistance. Part 2 People get ready: Can I get a witness? - civil rights, soul and secularization; Everybody needs somebody to love - southern soul, southern dreams, national stereotypes; All for one, and one for all - black enterprise, racial politics and the business of soul; On the outside looking in - rhythm and blues, celebrity politics and the civil rights movement. Part 3 One nation divisible under a groove: Tell it like it is - soul, funk and sexual politics in the black power era; Get up, get into it, get involved - black music and the black power movement; Take that to the bank - black capitalism, corporate soul and disco fever. Epilogue: How I keep from going under - black music in the post-revolutionary era.