Songs in the Key of Black Life

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Mark Anthony Neal is Associate Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Program in African and African-American Studies at Duke University. Neal is the author of Whatthe Music Said, Soul Babies, and Songs in the Key ofBlack Life, all published by Routledge.

Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction: Music on My Mind Rhythm 1. Revolutionary Mixtape 2. Grown-Ass Women 3. Digging the Scene (with the Gangsta Lean) 4. Habermas in the Hood 5. Oh My! (The Sexual Healing Interlude) 6. The E-Double and the Trouble Man 7. Bellbottoms, Bluebelles, and the Funke-Ass White Girl 8. Nuyorican Nostalgia 9. Some Otha Shit And Blues 10. Radio Free Soul 11. Big Pimpin' 12. But It's Not a Rap CD 13. Three the Hard Way