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Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic forum for their radical politics. Broadcast on public television between 1968 and 1973, Soul!, helmed by pioneering producer and frequent host Ellis Haizlip, connected an array of black performers and public figures with a black viewing audience. In It's Been Beautiful, Gayle Wald tells the story of Soul!, casting this influential but overlooked program as a bold and innovative use of television to represent and critically explore black identity, culture, and feeling during a transitional period in the black freedom struggle.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

25 avril 2015

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822375807

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

19 Mo

It’s Been Beautiful

A production of the Console-ing Passions book series Edited by Lynn Spigel

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It’s Been Beautiful

Soul!and Black Power Television

G A Y L E W A L D

W I T H P H O T O G R A P H S B Y C H E S T E R H I G G I N S

D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S SDurham and London2015

P H O T O G R A P H S B Y C H E S T E R H I G G I N S

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial NoDerivatives 4.0 International License:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/byncnd/4.0/ Printed in the United States of America on acidfree paper∞ Typeset in Warnock Pro by Copperline.

Library of Congress Cataloging inPublication Data Wald, Gayle, 1965– It’s been beautiful : Soul! and black power television /

Gayle Wald ; with photographs by Chester Higgins. pages cm—(Spin offs) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780822358251 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 9780822358374 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 9780822375807 (ebook) 1. Soul! (Television program) 2. Soul music. 3. African Americans in television broadcasting—United States—History. I. Higgins, Chester.

II. Title. III. Series: Consoleing passions book series. Spin offs. PN1992.77.S663W352015 791.45’72—dc23 2014043821

ISBN 9781478093640 (ebook other)

The open access edition ofIt’s Been Beautifulwas made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program.

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Contents

Potograper’s Note. A Vision ofSoul!ix, by Cester Higgins Introduction. “It’s Been Beautiful” 

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Soul!and te s Te Black Community and te Aﬀective Compact  “More Meaningful Tan a Tree-Hour Lecture”: Music onSoul!  Freaks Like Us: Black Misﬁt Performance onSoul!  Te Racial State and te “Disappearance” ofSoul! 

Conclusion.Soul!at te Center

acknowledgments  notes  bibliography  index 

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Illustrations

P H O T O G R A P H S B Y C H E S T E R H I G G I N S

Ellis Haizlip and Katleen Cleaver  Toni Morrison  Gladys Knigt  Roberta Flack  Odetta  Arsenio Hall  Anna Horsford  Te New York Community Coir  Novella Nelson  Anna Horsford  Novella Nelson  Ellis Haizlip and Georgia Jackson  Alice Hille  Ellis Haizlip, Melvin Van Peebles, and Stan Latan  Nick Asford and Valerie Simpson  Te Staple Singers  Nikki Giovanni and Miriam Makeba  Telonious Monk  Max Roac  Rasaan Roland Kirk  Felipe Luciano  Mongo Santamaría 

. Labelle  . Al Green  . Betty Sabazz  . Sidney Poitier, Novella Nelson, and Harry Belafonte  . Jackie Early, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sancez, and Saundra Sarp  . Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin  .–. James Baldwin  . Amiri Baraka  . Cildren in teSoul!studio audience . Ester Pillips  . Woody King and Vertamae Grosvenor  . Ellis Haizlip  C. Ellis Haizlip 

Photographer’s Note

A V I S I O N O FS O UL !

Coming to New York from Tuskegee Institute gave me te cance to sare in te cultural wellspring tat was bubbling up in s Harlem. Were else could I ear poetry slams by Amiri Baraka at te Scom-burg Center, listen to Minister Louis Farrakan’s rallies at Malcolm Sabazz Mosque or Olatunji playing is drums in Mount Morris Park, browse Micaux’s African National Memorial Bookstore at te corner of t Street and Sevent Avenue, or watc Black Panters protest against te displacement of black-owned businesses? Altoug I lived in Brooklyn, I ventured to Harlem almost daily to experience te street life tere tat brimmed wit new conﬁdence in being black, embracing Africanness, and giving voice to visions of a new world were te black point of view ad a seat at te policy-making table. I focused my work on giving visual imagery to te black conscious-ness tat arose out of te civil rigts era and African studies. I made te rounds of exibits and literary festivals looking for opportunities to make publicity portraits, and my images began to appear in a few books and on a book cover for te poet Nikki Giovanni. To support my family and my work, I sougt out freelance oppor-tunities at teNew York TimesArts and Leisure section and Cannel . Nikki Giovanni introduced me to Ellis Haizlip, er friend and te producer ofSoul! Recognizing tat I ad skills tat could serve im well, e ired me to soot te publicity stills for te sow. Producing publicity images forSoul!me a privileged window gave

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