New PDF release: A Critical History of Soul Train on Television

By Christopher P. Lehman

As a wildly well known neighborhood dance exhibit, Soul Train supplied a venue for Chicago’s soul singers and political activists and gave African American young ones their first major likelihood to determine and establish with their friends on tv. the following nationwide sequence garnered much more acceptance, constructing manufacturer and host Don Cornelius as the most profitable pioneers of African American tv construction. This paintings discusses Cornelius’s function within the evolution of his groundbreaking sequence from a small, all-black Nineteen Seventies tv convey to a profitable model identify employing not just to this system, but in addition to awards and numerous item within the current day.
the 1st chapters specialize in Cornelius’s years in Chicago and the preliminary launching of Soul Train in 1970. the following chapters discover how the nationally televised, California-based model of the express rose gradually in either attractiveness and cultural effect between basically African American audience, and the way Cornelius himself turned a emerging star in the course of that point. the ultimate chapters illustrate Cornelius’s efforts in branching out past the dance express via quite a few music-related enterprise ventures, together with the Soul educate song Awards. The paintings comprises interviews with numerous former solid participants and site visitors, besides an entire chronology of the sequence and Cornelius’s different expert ventures.

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