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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778901703321

Autore

White Miles <1954->

Titolo

From Jim Crow to Jay-Z [[electronic resource] ] : race, rap, and the performance of masculinity / / by Miles White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-43200-5

9786613432001

0-252-09367-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

African American music in global perspective

Disciplina

305.38/896073

Soggetti

Rap (Music) - Social aspects - United States

African American men - Race identity

Music and race

Masculinity - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Shadow and act : American popular music and the absent black presence -- The fire this time : black masculinity and the politics of racial performance -- Affective gestures : hip-hop aesthetics, blackness and the literacy of performance -- Real niggas : black men, hard men, and the rise of gangsta culture -- Race rebels : whiteness and the new masculine desire.

Sommario/riassunto

This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male culture to stereotypes of deviance, misogyny, and excess.