It''s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television
ISBN: 9780822375807
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Communication Studies ; African American Studies ; American Studies ; Music;

In It's Been Beautiful , Gayle Wald examines Soul! , the first African American black variety television show on public television, which between 1968 and 1973 was instrumental in expressing the diversity of black popular culture, thought and politics, as well as helping to create the notion of black community.


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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