02139nam 2200397Ka 450 991104172810332120251120100028.21-4780-9453-2(CKB)42832279900041(ODN)ODN0012342214(EXLCZ)994283227990004120250930d2025 uy 0engurcn|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe aesthetic character of blackness Sounds like us. /Jemma DeCristo20251 online resource1-4780-2921-8 In The Aesthetic Character of Blackness , Jemma DeCristo theorizes the means by which black art liberates the free world but does not and cannot liberate black people. Drawing on Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke and as well as the aesthetic thought of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Theodor Adorno, DeCristo critiques the exaltation of black culture and art's saving power by analyzing the violence underneath aesthetic production. She tracks black music's representational and anti-representational capacities in projects of black non/humanization from nineteenth-century abolitionism and the founding of the recording industry to the emergence of black queer blues performers and the rise of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Theorizing the contemporary neoliberalization of black audio-visual spectacle, DeCristo ultimately demonstrates that the voluptuous world of black aesthetics beautifies an anti-black world that wields black art and culture as a weapon against black life.NonfictionOverDriveMulti-CulturalOverDriveMusicOverDriveSociologyOverDriveNonfiction.Multi-Cultural.Music.Sociology.MUS014000SOC001000SOC052000bisacshDeCristo Jemma1857150BOOK9911041728103321The aesthetic character of blackness4457855UNINA