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Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture
Harry J. Elam
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Description for Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Elam, Harry J., Jr.; Jackson, Kennell. Num Pages: 416 pages, 15 photos, 3 drawings, 1 chart. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics 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 sixteen essays provide nuanced and complex perspectives on black culture, not as a static set of shared beliefs and customs but as something that is contingent and dynamic. The essays engage with critical issues such as circulation, cultural appropriation, commodification, commercialization, and hybridity as they take up subjects that include television, hlp hop, R&B, gospel, ... Read more
Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics 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 sixteen essays provide nuanced and complex perspectives on black culture, not as a static set of shared beliefs and customs but as something that is contingent and dynamic. The essays engage with critical issues such as circulation, cultural appropriation, commodification, commercialization, and hybridity as they take up subjects that include television, hlp hop, R&B, gospel, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
585g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472068401
SKU
V9780472068401
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About Harry J. Elam
Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of Drama at Stanford University. He is author of The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson and Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka. Kennell Jackson is Associate Professor of History at Stanford, and author of ... Read more
Reviews for Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture
The explosion of interest in black popular culture studies in the past fifteen years has left a significant need for a reader that reflects this new scholarly energy. Black Cultural Traffic answers that need. - Mark Anthony Neal, author of Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation