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Mark Anthony Neal

Mark Anthony Neal

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies
African & African American Studies
man9@duke.edu
Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708-0252
Science Building, 243F, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Other

“Nearer to Thee”: The Still Evolving Legacy and Politics of Sam Cooke

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

“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

’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

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

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

1968: Soul Music and the Year of Black Power

Other Black Perspectives · December 31, 2018 Link to item 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

Who Gets to Use the "N" Word

Other Salon · 2007 Cite

Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip-Hop

Other AOL BLACK VOICES · February 2005 Cite