Black cultural traffic : crossroads in global performance and popular culture

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

"Black Cultural Traffic traces how blackness travels globally in performance, engaging the work of an international and interdisciplinary mix of scholars, critics, and practicing artists. The book's essays provide nuanced and complex perspectives on black culture--not as a static set of sh...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2005]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Black people in the performing arts.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Black people in popular culture.
African Americans in popular culture.
African American arts.
Arts, Black.
African Americans > Race identity.
Black people > Race identity.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Black people > Intellectual life.
Popular culture > United States.
Popular culture.
Performing arts > Social aspects > United States.
Performing arts > Social aspects.
popular culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Black people in the performing arts
Black people in popular culture
African Americans in the performing arts
African Americans in popular culture
African American arts
African Americans > Intellectual life
African Americans > Race identity
Arts, Black
Black people > Intellectual life
Black people > Race identity
Performing arts > Social aspects
Popular culture
Populaire cultuur.
Uitvoerende kunsten.
Sociale aspecten.
United States
Essays
Essays.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Tricia Rose
  • Twenty questions / Donald Byrd
  • Introduction. Traveling while Black / Kennell Jackson
  • Part one. Crossroads and intersections in Black performace and Black popular culture. 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
  • Part two. Stop signs and signposts : stabilities and instabilities in Black performance and Black popular culture. Optic Black : naturalizing the refusal to fit / W. T. Lhamon, Jr.
  • Diaspora aesthetics and visual culture / Kobena Mercer
  • Keepin' it real : disidentification and its discontents / Tim'm T. West
  • Faking the funk? : Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and (hybrid) Black celebrity / Caroline A. Streeter
  • Interlude : Black artists on issues of culture and performance
  • Part three. International congestion : globalization, dispersions, and Black cultural travel. Black community, Black spectacle : performance and race in transatlantic perspective / Tyler Stovall
  • The 1960s in Bamako : Malick Sidibé and James Brown / Manthia Diawara
  • Global hip-hop and the African diaspora / Halifu Osumare
  • Continental riffs : praise singers in transnational contexts / Paulla A. Ebron
  • Part four. Trafficking in Black visual images : television, film, and new media. 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.

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