Table of Contents

Track Listing
Acknowledgments
Note on Text

What Is Past Is Prologue
1. The Spell Is Cast
2. Home Cooking
3. Finding the Groove
4. The Means of Survival
5. The Feminine Mystique
6. Video (Almost) Killed the R&B Star
7. Radio Silence
Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography

Promotional Information

A look at how D'Angelo's Voodoo became a touchstone album for R&B/Soul in the early 2000s and its integral role in initiating the "neosoul movement."

About the Author

Faith A. Pennick is a Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based filmmaker and writer. Pennick's fiction and nonfiction films have aired on U.S. television and screened at film festivals throughout the world. She has written for National Public Radio and the pop culture website The Learned Fangirl, among other outlets.

Reviews

A part of the influential ‘33 1/3 Series’ ... Filmmaker and writer Faith Pennick’s new book is a pop culture passion project that digs deep into music, race, masculinity, and the enduring power of one particular music video.
*LSA Magazine*