Soul Sounds: The Afterlife in African American Literature and Music

A timely, accessible, and empowering analysis of the afterlife, offering an important corrective to assaults on Black life, art, and culture

Despite its recurrent representation, a literal afterlife has been surprisingly neglected in Black literary and music studies. Soul Sounds addresses this gap by locating in spiritualist narratives, narratives by the formerly enslaved, contemporary Black poetry, and hip-hop music an afterlife that is at once futuristic, eternal, and temporally proximate ...