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Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): A Docalogue

Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): A Docalogue

Baron, Jaimie
Fuhs, Kristen

Paperback

Series: Docalogue

AnthropologyFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032502541
ISBN13: 9781032502540
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 6 2025
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The fifth title in the Docalogue series, this book examines Ahmir Questlove Thompson's 2021 documentary, Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised).

The award-winning film draws on archival footage and interviews to examine the legacy of the Harlem Cultural Festival, a showcase of Black music staged weekly throughout the summer of 1969. The film interrogates this event as a piece of forgotten history and prompts critical reflection on why this history was lost while also raising important questions related to archival preservation and cultural memory. Combining five different perspectives, this book acts both as an intensive scholarly treatment and as a pedagogical guide for how to analyze, theorize, and contextualize a documentary. Together, the essays in this book touch upon key topics related to the study of popular music, musical performance, and audiences; the discovery and reuse of archives and archival documents; and Black studies and American cultural history more broadly.

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