Soul Texts and the Blackness of Folk

Radano, Ronald

doi:10.1353/mod.1995.0011

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“…Fortunately, we have seen in the past few years the appearance of work that provides some direction for these kinds of interventions, most notably, from Samuel Floyd's 1995 The Power of Black Music and Ronald Radano's (1995Radano's ( , 1996 recent work that stretches over a series of essays and will soon culminate in a much anticipated book-length study. Floyd's work uses methodology from Black literary theory and African American history.…”

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“…Even identity is considered one of the by-products of systems and structures beyond the control of historical actors. If Radano's (1995Radano's ( , 1996 work, like other post-structuralist research, privileges the "construction" component of the social construction equation, Floyd's (1995) is more focused on the "social" or on who groups of people agree that they are in the world. Again, this difference is subtle.…”

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The Pot Liquor Principle: Developing a Black Music Criticism in American Music Studies

Ramsey

2004

Journal of Black Studies

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This essay reflects on Black musical culture in the United States and its criticism with an eye toward how these ideas implicate new directions and areas of potential growth in the burgeoning field of American music studies writ large. We cannot fully understand American music and its study without intensely engaging the parts that comprise its sum. The relationship of African American musical studies to American musical studies remains a symbiotic and dynamic one and, therefore, we should keep in mind that any discussion of either should recognize that they simply would not exist in their present forms without one another.Yet one of the first orders of business in this exercise is a difficult and, to some, a potentially divisive task: facing and coming to terms with some uncomfortable truths about the Black experience both in 210

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