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Mark Anthony Neal
is the author of four books, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003) and New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005). Neal is also the co-editor (with Murray Forman) of That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2004). Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. A frequent commentator for National Public Radio Neal also contributes to several on-line media outlets, including SeeingBlack.com, The Root.com and theGrio.com.
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  • ▼  2009 (242)
    • ►  December (4)
      • The Black Youth Project on the Murder of Fred Hamp...
      • A Young Father Thinks About 'Precious'
      • 'Bulletproof' and Raheem DeVaughn's Urgent Nostalg...
      • Amazing Grace: Aretha @ Her Peak
    • ►  November (21)
      • 'Private Dancer' @ 25; Tina @ 70
      • "Queer Eye for the Black Guy"
      • 'Brother Blue' Goes Home
      • Some fo' real, fo' real from Raheem DeVaughn
      • New York, New York, Big City of Dreams...
      • Post-Modern Mammy?: The Oprah Legacy
      • Morehouse on His Mind
      • A 'Precious' Debate
      • Yinka Shonibare MBE @ the Smithsonian
      • A (Nearly) Flawless Masculinity?: Barack Obama
      • Book Review: “Baad Bitches” and Sassy Supermamas: ...
      • Holding Back the Years: Doc Gooden 25 Years Later
      • Real Talk from Uncle Charlie: “Get a Prostate Exam...
      • Psst! Morehouse men — pull your pants up!
      • 'The Color Purple' vs. 'Precious'
      • 5th African-American Literature Symposium @ NCCU
      • A Silky Soul Tribute
      • Nation of Cowards: "Watch Your Mouth (Uncle) Tom"
      • Book Review: Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy ...
      • Now On YouTube--William "Sandy" Darity Chats Up th...
      • Now Available on YouTube: "Office Hours with Mark ...
    • ►  October (23)
      • The Cutting Edge of 'Kamaal the Abstract'
      • New York State of Mind? Alicia Keys and Shawn Car...
      • Ne-Yo Sings the Theme to 'The Princess & the Frog'...
      • Sapphire Chats Up 'Push' and 'Precious' with Katie...
      • Why No One Talks Back to Cathy Hughes
      • Crisis in the Village? The Morehouse Dress Code
      • The Unmasking of Mike Tyson
      • Black Women's Health and Domestic Violence
      • Issues Beyond the Morehouse College Dress Code
      • 'Hearing' Meshell Ndgeocello Again
      • Robin DG Kelley on Thelonious Monk
      • A Queer Black MobileHomeComing
      • Panel Discussion: Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Lat...
      • Frank Leon Roberts: On Morehouse College's New Dre...
      • The Access & Digital Literacy Research Project
      • Make In Plain: Reading Nas’s Letter to ‘Young Warr...
      • Bombing Capitalism
      • from the ASALH
      • Blood in Our Streets
      • The Cult of Musical Genius
      • Davey D on the Death of 'Mr. Magic'
      • Office Hours with William 'Sandy' Darity
      • Weighing In on Roman Polanski
    • ►  September (20)
      • William Safire Goes Home
      • Tallahassee Bound
    • ►  August (15)
    • ►  July (23)
    • ▼  June (32)
      • Dear Michael: Love Letters from Cyberspece
      • Chatting Up Michael Joseph Jackson
      • Conjuring Michael (the “uncut-before-u-git-the-aca...
      • Loving Michael
      • The Persecution of Progressive Black Scholars
      • Mark Anthony Neal on the Michael Eric Dyson Show
      • A "Fatherless" Debate?
      • New Muslim Cool
      • Chatting Up Black Radio, the Music Industry and Fa...
      • A Daughter's Reflection...
      • Rethinking Juneteenth
      • Fathers and Sons; Black Men and Baseball (for Byro...
      • Chatting Up (Black) Fatherhood
      • ON-THE-AIR: Re-inventing Fatherhood
      • Book Review: Ain't I a Feminist?: African America...
      • Black Music Month 2009--The Genius of Rev. James C...
      • Black Music Month Classics: Songs of the Sad Minst...
      • Book Review: Performing Black Masculinity: Race, C...
      • Michael Jackson--The Motown Years
      • Black Music Month Classics: Fertile Ground
      • Bill Clinton on John Hope Franklin
      • Hubert Harrison, Black Public Intellectual
      • William Jelani Cobb on Obama and Same-Sex Marriage...
      • Black Music Month '09: The Legacy of Jerry Butler’...
      • Melissa Harris-Lacewell Takes a "Stand"
      • GM's Bankruptcy and Obama's Race Problem
      • Our Costly Mad Sports Love
      • How George Tiller's Death Affects Black Women
      • Kalup Linzy's Retrospective at the Studio Museum H...
      • Black Music Month '09: Remembering Ronnie Dyson
      • The Princess Wars
      • Duke Professor Wins Philip Taft Labor History Boo...
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  • Bold As Love
    LISTENING POST: Sophia Ramos -- "Freedom Is Over" - The compilation, "Boldaslove.us presents Fire In The Dark" has clocked in just under 8,300 downloads. This is one of the songs, I think, that's driving tha...
  • What About Our Daughters
    I am NOT Tiger Wood’s Mistress : Where Is My Press Conference Confession non- Confession - Since Tiger Woods isn’t holding a press conference, I am! I would like to issue the following statement: I just wanted to be clear so there is no misunders...
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  • Ernest Hardy | Blood Beats
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  • Bruce and Carrie's Son
    Looks like I may be blogging from London in the near future.... - Frankly, I'm pretty hyped right now. The reason? Apparently, yours truly will be spending all of next year in the United Kingdom on one of 35 Marshall Sc...
  • Afro-Netizen
    Murdoch dodges the question, again: does he think Obama is a racist? - A few weeks ago, Rupert Murdoch said that Glenn Beck was right when he called Obama a racist, and since then he has been dodging questions about what exactly...
  • LEFT OF CENTER
    What I Won’t Be Buying into for Christmas: Sammy Sosa’s “Revolution” - ***This commentary was intended for a mainstream American news outlet, who ultimately didn’t find Sammy Sosa’s cultural imperialism relevant to its readers...
  • Bomani Jones
    The Tiger Woods FAQ - Got questions about what happened to Tiger Woods? Me, too. Here they are, as they came to me, and the best I — or anyone else — could come up with, given...
  • Diary of an Anxious Black Woman
    Moving Yet Sloppy Portrayal of a Harlem Girl: My Review of Precious (Spoilers) - I have a problem with sloppy directors, and to me, Lee Daniels is one of them. Take the opening voice-over lines uttered by our titular character, Preciou...
  • From the Desk of Professor Jonathan L. Walton
    Did Christianity Cause the Crash? Hell to the Naw!!! - December’s feature story in the Atlantic is a classic case of great article, horrible title! It’s a great story insofar as Hanna Rosin carefully makes the...
  • Sister Scholar
    Digitally United for a Day - Two weeks ago, I challenged you to swap your daily blog habits, and I promised that I’d report back. I did not get many responses, and the ones I did recei...
  • Anarchist Graffiti
    On the Anniversary of President Obama's Win - SNL delivers a hefty chuckle moment (a rare instance these days...Ha!) with this send-up of Fox News assessment of Obama's year in the White House. While w...
  • studio-walton muyumba
    Brief Notes on Jazz Roots: A Larry Rosen Jazz Series - Art & Seek 6 November 2009 Al Jarreau makes “adult contemporary” music. That’s not a problem, except that Jarreau’s set at the Winspear Opera House on Wedn...
  • Professor Kim's News Notes
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  • Blacksmythe
    Does Obama shape black opinion? A survey experiment - When Obama got elected a couple of researchers conducted an experiment to see if Obama’s election would have any tangible effect on the racial achievement ...
  • americanexception.com
    Crime, Taxes and Politics: Three Questions for Ceasar Mitchell - My car was broken into last week. Under normal circumstances this would be a routine hazard of urban living. You see a parking spot; someone else sees an o...
  • THE KITCHEN TABLE
    Farewell to The Kitchen Table - Dearest Readers of *The Kitchen Table*, I am officially retiring my place here at *TKT*. Yolanda and I launched this blog nearly one year ago. In that t...
  • she real cool
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  • House Scholar
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6.22.2009

Chatting Up Black Radio, the Music Industry and Facebook with Michael Fordham on Blog Talk Radio




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