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This book is about how black popular music has been used to represent and communicate the experiences and feelings of black communities throughout history. It discusses how hip-hop music has been seen as the first black cultural movement to speak truth to power, but also discusses how other forms of black popular music have contributed to the representation of black communities.
What the Music Said is a book about communities under siege, but also communities engaged in various forms of resistance, institution-building and everyday pleasures. Beginning with the Be-Bop era, Mark Anthony Neal reads the story of "black communities" through the black tradition in popular music. Exploring the broad range of black cultural experience and expression, Neal locates a history that challenges the view that hip-hop was the first black cultural movement to "speak truth to power."
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