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It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television
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It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television Hardcover - 2015

by Gayle Wald


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Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic forum for their radical politics. Broadcast on public television between 1968 and 1973, Soul!, helmed by pioneering producer and frequent host Ellis Haizlip, connected an array of black performers and public figures with a black viewing audience. In It's Been Beautiful, Gayle Wald tells the story of Soul!, casting this influential but overlooked program as a bold and innovative use of television to represent and critically explore black identity, culture, and feeling during a transitional period in the black freedom struggle.

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  • Title It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television
  • Author Gayle Wald
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2015
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780822358251 / 0822358255
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Soul music, African Americans in television broadcasting
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014043821
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.457

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Citations

  • Choice, 10/01/2015, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 07/10/2015, Page 17

About the author

Gayle Wald is Professor of English and American Studies at George Washington University. She is the author of Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in U.S. Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture.
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