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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786186103321

Autore

Johnson Gaye Theresa

Titolo

Spaces of conflict, sounds of solidarity [[electronic resource] ] : music, race, and spatial entitlement in Los Angeles / / Gaye Theresa Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013

ISBN

0-520-95485-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

American crossroads

Disciplina

979.4/94

Soggetti

Community development - California - Los Angeles - History

Minorities - Political activity - California - Los Angeles - History

Minorities - California - Los Angeles - Social conditions

Popular music - Social aspects - California - Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Calif.) Race relations History

Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Future Has a Past -- Chapter 1. Luisa Moreno, Charlotta Bass, and the Constellations of Interethnic Working-Class Radicalism -- Chapter 2. Spatial Entitlement -- Chapter 3. Cold Wars and Counter WAR(s): Coalitional Politics in an Age of Violence -- Chapter 4. "Teeth-Gritting Harmony": Punk, Hip-Hop, and Sonic Spatial Politics -- Chapter 5. Space, Sound, and Shared Struggles -- Conclusion: In This Great Future . . . -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity, Gaye Theresa Johnson examines interracial anti-racist alliances, divisions among aggrieved minority communities, and the cultural expressions and spatial politics that emerge from the mutual struggles of Blacks and Chicanos in Los Angeles from the 1940's to the present. Johnson argues that struggles waged in response to institutional and social repression have created both moments and movements in which Blacks and Chicanos have unmasked power imbalances, sought recognition, and forged solidarities by embracing the strategies, cultures, and politics of each others' experiences. At the center of this study is the theory of spatial



entitlement: the spatial strategies and vernaculars utilized by working class youth to resist the demarcations of race and class that emerged in the postwar era. In this important new book, Johnson reveals how racial alliances and antagonisms between Blacks and Chicanos in L.A. had spatial as well as racial dimensions.