Part 1 The colonized black nation - the basis and development of black nationalist thought of the 1960s and 1970s: national ideology assimilation/integration revolution and the decolonization process revitalization and the reemergence of black nationalism varieties of black nationalism - cultural, educational, religious, revolutionary. Part 2 Culture, and the new black music -political weapons: revolution on the cultural front soul music as nationalist expression pre-nationalist New Orleans - a case study imitators and the commodification of black nationalism in the new black music - self-definition, self-assessment, economic self-reliance and control unity and communication. Part 3 The power to elevate and define one's own identity, consciousness and the new black music: black cultural revitalization the new Negro -the Harlem renaissance and Marcus Garvey black is beautiful - self-identity and black aesthetics jazz another name for nigger?. Part 4 The power to elevate and define one's own cultural revitalization and the pursuit of a black aesthetic: African liberation, Frantz Fanon and black cultural nationalism black cultural nationalism of the 1960s black arts and the black aesthetic the black aesthetic and the new black music poly-rhythms, texture and collective improvization the Chicagoans - a case study. Part 5 You own and we make it - economic black nationalism and the new black music: economic colonization of black Americans brief history of the economics of musical colonialism and new black music recording industry clubs from commodity to art - economic and artistic control loft movement collectives independent record companies and labels. Part 6 Conclusion - the impossible revolution? black nationalism and the new black music: decline of black nationalism black nationalism and the new black music appendix.