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From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity
Miles White
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Hardback. Negotiating identity in hip-hop culture Series: African Amer Music in Global Perspective. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGR; JFCA; JFSJ2; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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. Broadening the significance of hip-hop culture by linking it to other expressive forms within popular culture, Miles White examines how these representations have both encouraged the demonization of young black males in the United States and abroad and contributed to the construction of their identities.
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. Broadening the significance of hip-hop culture by linking it to other expressive forms within popular culture, Miles White examines how these representations have both encouraged the demonization of young black males in the United States and abroad and contributed to the construction of their identities.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
African Amer Music in Global Perspective
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252036620
SKU
V9780252036620
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About Miles White
Formerly a professional musician and entertainment journalist, Miles White teaches at City University of Seattle in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Reviews for From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity
"Miles White's From Jim Crow to Jay-Z drops squarely into the Bermuda Triangle of critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, and performance studies with useful new approaches to studying rappers as ambivalent cultural exemplars of black masculine performance."
H-Net Review "Invaluable. . . . Provides a clear example of how interdisciplinary approaches to African American music ... Read more
H-Net Review "Invaluable. . . . Provides a clear example of how interdisciplinary approaches to African American music ... Read more