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- Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: American Crossroads
summary
Herman Gray takes a sweeping look at black popular culture over the past decade to explore culture's role in the push for black political power and social recognition. In a series of linked essays, he finds that black artists, scholars, musicians, and others have been instrumental in reconfiguring social and cultural life in the United States and he provocatively asks how black culture can now move beyond a preoccupation with inclusion and representation.
Gray considers how Wynton Marsalis and his creation of a jazz canon at Lincoln Center acted to establish cultural visibility and legitimacy for jazz. Other essays address such topics as the work of the controversial artist Kara Walker; the relentless struggles for representation on network television when those networks are no longer the primary site of black or any other identity; and how black musicians such as Steve Coleman and George Lewis are using new technology to shape and extend black musical traditions and cultural identities.
Gray considers how Wynton Marsalis and his creation of a jazz canon at Lincoln Center acted to establish cultural visibility and legitimacy for jazz. Other essays address such topics as the work of the controversial artist Kara Walker; the relentless struggles for representation on network television when those networks are no longer the primary site of black or any other identity; and how black musicians such as Steve Coleman and George Lewis are using new technology to shape and extend black musical traditions and cultural identities.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. iii-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- PART I: Strategies
- 3. The Jazz Left
- pp. 52-73
- PART II: Tactics
- 6. Different Dreams, Dreams of Difference
- pp. 114-119
- 7. Cultural Politics as Outrage(ous)
- pp. 120-130
- PART III: Moves
- 8. Is (Cyber) Space the Place?
- pp. 133-147
- 9. Music, Identity, and New Technology
- pp. 148-184
- Conclusion: Cultural Moves
- pp. 185-193
- Bibliography
- pp. 225-240
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520937871
Related ISBN(s)
9780520233744
MARC Record
OCLC
57516723
Pages
257
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No