Mark Anthony Neal, Professor  

Office Location: 243 Ernestine Friedl Bldg., Rm. F
Office Phone: (919) 684-3987
Email Address: dr-yogi@att.net
Web Page: http://newblackman.blogspot.com/

Specialties:
Cultural Studies
African-American Literature

Education:
PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1996

Teaching (Spring 2010):

• AAAS 132.01, Black popular culture Synopsis

  White 107, Tu 06:00 PM-08:30 PM

• WOMENST 210S.01, Topics in feminist studies

  Friedl bdg 240, M 06:00 PM-08:30 PM

• VISUALST 260S.02, Topics in visual studies

  Friedl bdg 240, M 06:00 PM-08:30 PM

• CULANTH 280S.02, The chitlin circuit Synopsis

  Friedl bdg 240, M 06:00 PM-08:30 PM

• AAAS 299S.02, The chitlin circuit Synopsis

  Friedl bdg 240, M 06:00 PM-08:30 PM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Mark Anthony Neal, New Black Man (April, 2005), Routledge (Reviews: The Washington Post, May 22, 2005; Chicago Sun-Times, May 29, 2005; Free Inquiry, August/September 2005, 55; Journal of American Culture, December 2005, Vol. 28 Issue 4, 448-449;.) [resources.asp] .
2. Mark Anthony Neal and Murray Forman (co-editors), That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (September, 2004), Routledge (Reviews: The Boston Globe October 7, 2004 http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/arti cles/2004/10/07/scholars_capture_essence_of_ hip_hop/ The Dallas Morning News November 26, 2004 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ fea/entertainment/stories/112704dnlivbooks.3 f7fd.html.) .
3. Mark Anthony Neal, Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (June, 2003), Routledge (Taylor and Francis) .
4. Mark Anthony Neal, Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (March, 2002), Routledge (Taylor and Francis) .
5. Mark Anthony Neal, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (October, 1998), Routledge (Taylor and Francis) .
6. Mark Anthony Neal, Freedom Summer Remembered: A Conversation with Denise Nicholas, THE BACKLIST—A PUBLISHING AND LITERARY NEWSLETTER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN INTEREST (October, 2005) [html] .
7. Mark Anthony Neal, "White Chocolate: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor", POPULAR MUSIC, vol. 24 no. 3 (October, 2005), Cambridge .
8. Mark Anthony Neal, "Rhythm and Bullshit: The Slow Decline of R&B (Rhythm and Blues)", ALTERNET.ORG (July 8, 2005) [available here] .
9. Mark Anthony Neal, "The Tortured Soul of Marvin Gaye and R. Kelly", in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004, edited by Mickey Hart (October, 2004), Da Capo Press .
10. Mark Anthony Neal, "A Way Out of No Way: Jazz, Hip Hop and Black Social Improvisation", in The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue, edited by Ajay Heble and Daniel Fischlin (Spring, 2004), Wesleyan .
11. Mark Anthony Neal, The Birth of New Blackness: The Family Stand's Moon in Scorpio, in Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock N' Roll, edited by Kandia Crazy Horse (January 3, 2004), Palgrave Macmillan .
12. Mark Anthony Neal, It's Your Nigger Problem, Not Hip-Hop's, BLACK AGENDA REPORT (December 6, 2006) [php] .