Stories by Mark Anthony Neal
Mark Anthony Neal is the author of four books including the forthcoming 'NewBlackMan' (February 2005). He is co-editor (with Murray Forman) of 'That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader,' which will be published in September. Neal is Associate Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Program in African and African-American Studies at Duke University.
Has R&B lost its soul? Or have Clear Channel, Radio One, AOL Time Warner and Viacom ripped its heart out?
Posted on Jul 8, 2005
Twenty years after the release of Roxanne Shante's "Roxanne's Revenge" and Salt & Pepa's "Showstopper," for the most part women rappers and scholars are still struggling to be included in the cipher of hip hop culture.
Posted on Aug 12, 2004
While Ray Charles' music may have begun in the church and moved onto R&B and Soul, he remained rooted in the music that birthed him throughout his career.
Posted on Jun 16, 2004
It's clear that hip-hop has a gender problem -- but where do the influences for these images and ideas come from? Perhaps we should be looking at the influences instead of the performers themselves.
Posted on May 27, 2004
The R&B singer accused of having sex with minors would have paid a far greater price if his victims had been white.
Posted on Apr 16, 2003
If June Jordan has been invisible to the mainstream in her death, it was not simply because she was black, but because she was a black woman, activist and intellectual.
Posted on Jul 2, 2002
