In her new book, Wald examine ‘Soul!’ as an archive of feeling; discuss its strategies of connecting African American performers to African American audiences; examine its social and historical conditions of possibility - and eventual demise; and explore what it means to think of "black" television outside of debates about representation. Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic forum for their radical politics.
