LEADER 02139nam 2200397Ka 450 001 9911041728103321 005 20251120100028.2 010 $a1-4780-9453-2 035 $a(CKB)42832279900041 035 $a(ODN)ODN0012342214 035 $a(EXLCZ)9942832279900041 100 $a20250930d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe aesthetic character of blackness $eSounds like us. /$fJemma DeCristo 210 $d2025 215 $a1 online resource 311 08$a1-4780-2921-8 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aNonfiction$2OverDrive 606 $aMulti-Cultural$2OverDrive 606 $aMusic$2OverDrive 606 $aSociology$2OverDrive 615 17$aNonfiction. 615 7$aMulti-Cultural. 615 7$aMusic. 615 7$aSociology. 686 $aMUS014000$aSOC001000$aSOC052000$2bisacsh 700 $aDeCristo$b Jemma$01857150 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911041728103321 996 $aThe aesthetic character of blackness$94457855 997 $aUNINA