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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826206603321

Titolo

Black cultural traffic : crossroads in global performance and popular culture / / edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr., and Kennell Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-59762-0

9786612597626

0-472-02545-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

ElamHarry Justin

JacksonKennell A

Disciplina

305.896/073/09051

Soggetti

African Americans - Race identity

Blacks - Race identity

African Americans - Intellectual life

Blacks - Intellectual life

Popular culture - United States

Popular culture

African American arts

Arts, Black

Performing arts - Social aspects - United States

Performing arts - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : traveling while Black / Kennell Jackson -- When is African theater "Black"? / Catherine M. Cole -- Performing Blackness down under : gospel music in Australia / E. Patrick Johnson -- Passing and the problematic of multiracial pride (or, why one mixed girl still answers to Black) / Danzy Senna -- The shadows of texts : will black music and singers sell everything on television? / Kennell Jackson -- Optic Black : naturalizing the refusal to fit / W. T. Lhamon, Jr -- Diaspora aesthetics and visual culture / Kobena Mercer -- Keeping it real : disidentification and its discontents / Tim'm T. West -- Faking the funk? : Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and (hybrid) Black celebrity /



Caroline A. Streeter -- Black community, Black spectacle : performance and race in transatlantic perspective / Tyler Stovall -- The 1960s in Bamako : Malick Sidibe and James Brown / Manthia Diawara -- Global hip-hop and the African diaspora / Halifu Osumare -- Continental riffs : praise singers in transnational contexts / Paulla A. Ebron -- Where have all the Black shows gone? / Herman Gray -- Hip-hop fashion, masculine anxiety, and the discourse of Americana / Nicole R. Fleetwood -- Spike Lee's bamboozled / Harry J. Elam, Jr. -- Moving violations : performing globalization and feminism in set it off / Jennifer Devere Brody -- Change clothes and go : a postscript to postblackness / Harry J. Elam, Jr.