Mark Anthony Neal

Other Medium · December 11, 2024 The records that Cooke makes with The Soul Stirrers from 1955 until his departure in 1957, is a masterclass in a genre of singing — Soul Singing — that had yet to be fully formulated. ... Link to item Cite

The Other Three-Album Run that Defined Quincy Jones' Black Pop Sound

Other LEVEL Magazine · November 15, 2024 George Benson, James Ingram, and Michael Jackson sparked a movement like no other. ... Link to item Cite

How Frankie Beverly Built a Band for Black America

Other LEVEL Magazine · September 15, 2024 While Grateful Dead disciples were looking for music to accompany the purple haze, most of Frankie Beverly’s fans were simply seeking good times and togetherness ... Link to item Cite

Revisiting Rap's Groundbreaking Book, Black Noise

Other LEVEL Magazine · August 7, 2024 It's the first book that I suggest students read when they express any interest in Hip-hop studies. Here's why ... Link to item Cite

Center Fielder Willie Mays Has Left the Field for the Last Time

Other LEVEL Magazine · June 20, 2024 How Willie Mays and baseball brought me closer to my father ... Link to item Cite

Black Men and the Shame of Absenteeism

Other LEVEL Magazine · June 15, 2024 There are long-held beliefs that Black men are absent in the lives of their children. This should not be a sweeping statement ... Link to item Cite

‘Black TV’ celebrates Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx and other trailblazers

Book Review Washington post (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · December 4, 2023 Link to item Cite

“Hip-Hop as Archival Practice and Form”: An Interview with Mark Anthony Neal

Other Black Perspectives · August 14, 2023 This is an interview with Mickell Carter, PhD Student in Africana Studies at Brown University, and Mark Anthony Neal, the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African American Studies and Chair of the Department of African & African American Studies at ... Link to item Cite

(Boogey) Man in the Mirror

Chapter · June 13, 2023 The first-ever monograph on American artist Hugh Hayden, whose sculptures are known for their engagement with notions of class, race, and cultural assimilation, as well as the construction of nature. ... Cite

“Just Look Over Your Shoulder”: The Music of Afrofuturism

Chapter · March 21, 2023 Afrofuturism comes at a time of increasing visibility for the concept, both in scholarship and in pop culture, and is a compelling ode to the revolutionary power of Black imagination. ... Cite

That's the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader

Book · 2023 Featured Publication This text is essential reading for anyone seeking deeper understanding of the profound impact of hip-hop as an intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural movement. ... Cite

Dick Gregory was many things. Filtered was not one of them.

Book Review Washington post (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · December 2, 2022 A new book, ‘The Essential Dick Gregory,’ shows us yet another side (or two) of the pioneering comic, author and activist ... Link to item Cite

The Beautiful Ones Were Born Sometime Ago

Chapter · May 15, 2022 This book explores the ways in which Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces, calling on theory and praxis for social change. ... Cite

’Round Midnight: Return from Exile

Other Current: The Criterion Collection · April 26, 2022 A longtime lover of jazz, Bertrand Tavernier honors its legacy by throwing the spotlight on real musicians—including legendary tenor sax player Dexter Gordon—improvising on-screen. ... Link to item Cite

Black Ephemera The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive

Book · March 8, 2022 "Black Ephemera explores the crisis and the challenge of the Black Musical archive in a moment when Black American culture has become a global import, yet the cultural DNA of that culture is becoming obscured in the transformation from ... ... Cite

The Crisis and the Challenge of the Archive Introduction

Chapter · 2022 Cite

"Promise That You Will [Tweet] about Me" Black Death in the Digital Era

Chapter · 2022 Cite

Writing and Living with Black Ephemera Coda

Chapter · 2022 Cite

"I'll Be a Bridge" Black Interiority, Black Invention, and the American Songbook

Chapter · 2022 Cite

Decamping Wakanda The Archive as Maroon

Chapter · 2022 Cite

Love in the Stax Death, Loss, and Resurrection in Post-King Memphis

Chapter · 2022 Cite

"I Got the Blues of a Fallen Teardrop" Erasure, Trauma, and a Sonic Archive of Black Women

Chapter · 2022 Cite

Pop Culture Helped Turn Police Officers Into Rock Stars — And Black Folks Into Criminals

Other Level Magazine · October 6, 2021 Exploring how copaganda empowers law enforcement to terrorize with impunity ... Link to item Cite

Zu-Zu’s Song Trauma, Citation, and the Black Women’s Songbook

Journal Article Liquid Blackness · October 1, 2021 Full text Cite

“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music

Other Black Perspectives · June 24, 2021 Link to item Cite

How Curtis Mayfield and Gladys Knight Created a Sound for Working-Class Black America

Other The Current | Critterion Collection · October 28, 2020 "More than anything, Claudine felt like a reprieve; the film, directed by John Berry and released in 1974, gave audiences a compelling alternative depiction of Black life from those about Black drug lords and mafia dons fighting over real estate in the yea ... Link to item Cite

AN INTERVIEW WITH MARK ANTHONY NEAL/JANUARY 9, 2016

Chapter · 2020 Cite

1968: Soul Music and the Year of Black Power

Other Black Perspectives · December 31, 2018 Link to item Cite

Introduction: Wild seed in the machine

Journal Article Black Scholar · July 3, 2017 Full text Cite

The post-civil rights period: The politics of musical creativity

Chapter · October 26, 2016 Full text Cite

N*ggas in Paris: hip-hop in exile

Journal Article Social Identities · March 3, 2016 This essay explores the meaning potentials of the exportation of American commercial rap music (exemplified via rap stars Kanye West and Jay Z) through the metaphorical lens of the discourse of exile. This perspective opens a view to Black aspirations as a ... Full text Cite

New black man: Tenth anniversary edition

Book · January 1, 2015 Ten years ago, Mark Anthony Neal’s New Black Man put forth a revolutionary model of Black masculinity for the twenty-first century-one that moved beyond patriarchy to embrace feminism and combat homophobia. Now, Neal’s book is more vital than ever, urging ... Full text Cite

Guest Editors’ Note

Journal Article Souls · October 2, 2014 Full text Cite

Now I Ain't Saying He's a 'Crate Digger': Kanye West and the Soul Archive

Chapter · March 6, 2014 Through rap and hip hop, entertainers have provided a voice questioning and challenging the sanctioned view of society. ... Cite

Now i ain’t saying he’s a Crate Digger: Kanye west, “community theaters” and the soul archive

Chapter · January 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Underground to Harlem: Rumblings and Clickety-Clacks of Diaspora

Chapter · October 2013 Cite

Nigga: The 21st-century theoretical superhero

Journal Article Cultural Anthropology · August 1, 2013 Full text Cite

Soul babies: Black popular culture and the post-soul aesthetic

Book · February 1, 2013 Featured Publication In Soul Babies, Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era. He traces the emergence of what he calls a "post-soul aesthetic," a transformation of values that marked a profo ... Full text Cite

What the music said black popular music and black public culture

Book · January 1, 2013 Featured Publication Full text Cite

"I Am Not Just From Here:" The Roots of Hip Hop's Cosmopolitanism: A Reflection on Isoke's "Women, Hip Hop and Cultural Resistance in Dubai"

Journal Article Souls · January 1, 2013 This response paper considers the gender realities of the subjects in Isoke's Women, Hip Hop, and Cultural Resistance in Dubai in relation to U.S. based hip hop artists who have recently begun to situate their work and image in larger international context ... Full text Cite

Looking for Leroy: Illegible black masculinities

Book · January 1, 2013 Mark Anthony Neal's Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in profound ... Cite

Pop Music and the Spatialization of Race in the 1990s

Journal Article History Now · 2012 Cite

Finding Tea Cake: An Imagined Black Feminist Manhood

Journal Article Palimpsest · 2012 Cite

Transforming Black Men in Feminism

Journal Article Palimpsest · 2012 Cite

Thinking While Black

Chapter · January 1, 2012 Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there was a long established tradition of the so-called “Race Man” - African American men who presumed the role of spokesperson for black communities. Though many of these figures were university-trained - ... Full text Cite

Bearing Witness: Mahalia Jackson & The Sanctified Bounce (for Clyde Woods)

Journal Article Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography · 2012 Cite

That's the Joint: A Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2nd Edition)

Book · July 2011 Cite

What Would Shirley Chisholm Say

Chapter · August 2010 Cite

Digging in the Crates

Chapter · August 2010 Cite

"Bringing Up Daddy: A Black Feminist Fatherhood"

Chapter · June 2010 Cite

Hip Hop Culture

Chapter · April 2010 Cite

The Chitlin Circuit

Chapter · April 2010 Cite

"A man without a country": The boundaries of legibility, social capital, and cosmopolitan masculinity

Journal Article Criticism · January 1, 2010 Full text Cite

Memory Lane: On Jazz, Hip-Hop and Fathers

Chapter · December 2009 Cite

"The Polanski Uproar: Criminal or Genius"

Other The New York Times On-line–Room for Debate · September 2009 Cite

"What Happened to All the Black Ball Players?"

Other The Philadelphia Inquirer/The Baltimore Sun/The Cleveland Plain Dealer · July 2009 Cite

"What's Driving Michael Jackson Mania? A Global Community Built on Pop"

Other The New York Times On-line–Room for Debate · July 2009 Cite

Applications and societal benefits of plastics.

Journal Article Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · July 2009 This article explains the history, from 1600 BC to 2008, of materials that are today termed 'plastics'. It includes production volumes and current consumption patterns of five main commodity plastics: polypropylene, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, polyst ... Full text Cite