What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture

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Introduction
Chapter 1 Legislating Freedom, Commodifying Struggle
Chapter 2 From Protest to Climax
Chapter 3 Soul for Sale
Chapter 4 Soul for Real
Chapter 5 Postindustrial Soul
Chapter 6 Postindustrial Postscript

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First Published in 1999. In What the Music Said, Mark Anthony Neal provides a timely study of from be-bop to Hip Hop. This book looks at the last fifty years of black popular music and provides an intriguing portrait of the existential and social forces that drove black communities to make music in protest, reaction and to fulfil their material and spiritual needs.

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Neal's book chronicles the development of various forms of black music from bebop to hip-hop with the meticulous care of a critic-historian and the zeal of a fan..In addition, What the Music Said does an excellent job of giving the reader a clear understanding of how music industry politics and current technology such as sampling help to shape the sound and texture of black popular music, particularly rap and R&B. The book is an impressive work of cultural criticism, one that both scholars and fans of popular music will learn from or argue with for decades to come

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