Section one: "a change is gonna come": Mahalia Jackson, Motown, and the movement. The dream ; Mahalia and the movement ; "The soul of the movement": calls and responses ; Motown: money, magic, and the mask ; The big chill vs. Cooley High: two out of three falls for the soul of Motown -- The gospel impulse. Sam Cooke and the voice of change ; Solid gold coffins: Phil Spector and the girl group blues ; SAR and the ambiguity of integration ; "The time they are a-changin'": Port Huron and the folk revival ; Woody and race ; "Blowin' in the wind": politics and authenticity ; Music and the truth: the birth of Southern soul ; Down at the crossroads -- The Blues impulse. Soul food: the mid-South mix ; Dylan, the Brits, and blue-eyed soul ; The minstrel blues ; Otis, Jimi, and the summer of love: from Monterey to Woodstock ; Last thoughts on the dream: Dot and Diana -- Section two: "love or confusion?": Black power, Vietnam, and the death of the dream. Sly in the smoke ; Death warrants: LBJ, Martin, and the liberal collapse ; "All along the watchtower": Jimi Hendrix and the sound of Vietnam ; 'Retha, rap, and revolt ; "Spirit in the dark": Aretha's gospel politics ; Jazz warriors: Malcolm and Coltrane -- The Jazz impulse. "Black is an' black ain't": JB, Miles, and Jimi ; Curtis Mayfield's gospel soul ; John Fogerty and the mythic south ; "Trouble comin' every day": southern strategies and the revolution on TV ; Troubled souls: Wattstax and Motown (west) ; "Where is the love?": Donny Hathaway and the end of the dream -- Section three: "I will survive": Disco, irony, and the sound of resistance. Reflections in a mirror ball ; Reverend Green and the return of Jim Crow ; Demographics 101: hard times in Chocolate City ; Black love in the key of life ; Jimmy Carter and the great quota disaster of 1978 ; Roots: the messages in the music ; God love sex: disco and the gospel impulse ; Disco sucks ; Punks and pretenders ; Rebellion or revolution: Bruce Springsteen and the Clash ; P-Funkentelechy ; Redemption songs: Bob Marley in Babylon ; The message: hip-hop and the south Bronx -- Section four: "And that's the way it is": The Reagan rules, hip-hop, and the megastars. Welcome to the terrordome ; Springsteen and the Reagan rules ; The problem of healing in the hall of mirrors ; The view from Black America ; The way it was and the way it is ; Brer Rabbit and Tar Baby ; Run-D.M.C. negotiates the mainstream ; "A hero to most": Elvis in the eighties ; Megastardom and its discontents: Michael and Madonna ; Duke Ellington for our time: the symbol formerly known as Prince ; West Africa is in the house ; "Bring the noise": the new school rap game ; "Know the ledge": KRS-One, Rakim, and the Gangstas ; "Born in the U.S.A.": Springsteen and race -- Section five: "Holler if ya hear me": In the nineties mix. Wasteland of the free ; American dreaming ; C.R.E.A.M., or, Tupac on death row ; Deeper shades of soul ; Ancestors and elders ; Conversations with the Ancestors ; Flashes of the spirit ; Redemption songs (the nineties remix).
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