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Cultural Appropriation for Mainstream Consumption: The Musical Adaptation of Dessa Rose
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 47, Number 1, March 2014
- pp. 91-109
- 10.1353/mos.2014.0007
- Article
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Abstract
Analyzing Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s 2005 musical adaptation of Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose, this essay suggests that mainstream consumption of black cultural expression is substituted for meaningful social change, highlighting the musical’s investment in a colour-blind ideology that reproduces the very erasures against which Williams wrote.
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