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Language, rhythm, & sound : black popular cultures into the twenty-first century / edited by Joseph K. Adjaye and Adrianne R. Andrews.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections
- University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- African American arts.
- African Americans--Cultural assimilation.
- Black people--Race identity.
- Black people.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- Focusing on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States, and the Caribbean this collection of multidisciplinary essays takes on subjects long overdue for study. Fifteen essays cover a world of topics, from American girls' Double Dutch games to protest discourse in Ghana; from Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale to the work of Zora Neale Hurston; from South African workers to Just Another Girl on the IRT; from the history of Rasta to the evolving significance of kente clothl from rap video music to hip-hop to zouk.The contributors work through the prisms of many disciplines, including anthropology, communications, English, ethnomusicology, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political economy, psychology, and social work. Their interpretive approaches place the many voices of popular black cultures into a global context. It affirms that black culture everywhere functions to give meaning to people's lives by constructing identities that resist cultural, capitolist, colonial, and postcolonial domination.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Popular culture and the Black experience / Joseph K. Adjaye
- The discourse of Kente cloth : from haute couture to mass culture / Joseph K. Adjaye
- Sarbeeb : the art of oblique communication in Somali culture / Said S. Samatar
- Nana Ampadu, the Sung-tale metaphor, and protest discourse in contemporary Ghana / Kwesi Yankah
- Using Afrikan proverbs to provide an Afrikan-centered narrative for contemporary Afrikan-American parental values / Huberta Jackson-Lowman
- The frustrated project of soul in the drama of Ed Bullins / Nathan L. Grant
- Of Mules and men and men and women : the ritual of talking B[l]ack / Adrianne R. Andrews
- Debunking the beauty myth with Black pop culture in Terry McMillan's Waiting to exhale / Rita B. Dandridge
- A womanist turn on the hip-hop theme : Leslie Harris's Just another girl on the IRT / Andre Willis
- Translating the double-dutch to hip-hop : the musical vernacular of Black girls play / Kyra D. Gaunt
- The language culture of rap music videos / Patricia A. Washington and Lynda Dixon Shaver
- The sound of culture : dread discourse and Jamaican sound systems / Louis Chude-Sokei
- "An-Ba-Chen'n La (Chained together) : the landscape of Kassav's Zouk / Brenda F. Berrian
- Mas' in Broklyn : immigration, race, and the cultural politics of Carnival / Rachel Buff
- Popular music, appropriation, and the circular culture of labor migration in Southern Africa : the case of South Africa and Malawi / Lupenga Mphande and Ikechukwu Okafor Newsum
- Cultural survivalisms and marketplace subversions : Black popular culture and politics into the twenty-first century / Tricia Rose.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822971771
- 0822971771
- OCLC:
- 891395096
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