Epilogue: “Do You Want It on Your Black-Eyed Peas?”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. 1. Daddy’s Second Line: Toward a Cultural Poetics of Race Music 1
6. 2. Disciplining Black Music: On History, Memory, and Contemporary Theories 17
7. 3. “It’s Just the Blues”: Race, Entertainment, and the Blues Muse 44
8. 4. “It Just Stays with Me All of the Time”: Collective Memory, Community Theater, and the Ethnographic Truth 76
9. 5. “We Called Ourselves Modern”: Race Music and the Politics and Practice of Afro-Modernism at Midcentury 96
10. 6. “Goin’ to Chicago”: Memories, Histories, and a Little Bit of Soul 131
11. 7. Scoring a Black Nation: Music, Film, and Identity in the Age of Hip-Hop 163
12. 8. “Santa Claus Ain’t Got Nothing on This!”: Hip-Hop Hybridity and the Black Church Muse 190
13. Epilogue: “Do You Want It on Your Black-Eyed Peas?” 217
14. Notes 219
15. Selected Bibliography 245
16. Acknowledgments 259
17. Index 263