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From Jim Crow to Jay-Z : race, rap, and the performance of masculinity / by Miles White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Miles, 1954-
- Series:
- African American music in global perspective.
- African American music in global perspective
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rap (Music)--Social aspects--United States.
- Rap (Music).
- African American men--Race identity.
- African American men.
- Music and race.
- Masculinity--United States.
- Masculinity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male culture to stereotypes of deviance, misogyny, and excess.
- Contents:
- Shadow and act : American popular music and the absent black presence
- The fire this time : black masculinity and the politics of racial performance
- Affective gestures : hip-hop aesthetics, blackness and the literacy of performance
- Real niggas : black men, hard men, and the rise of gangsta culture
- Race rebels : whiteness and the new masculine desire.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613432001
- 9781283432009
- 1283432005
- 9780252093678
- 0252093674
- OCLC:
- 779775777
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