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- Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
summary
"A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together provide a robust conversation about the nature, history, future, and even possibility of 'blackness' as a distinctive mode of cultural practice."
--Kimberly Benston, author of Performing Blackness
"Black Cultural Traffic is nothing less than our generation's manifesto on black performance and popular culture. With a distinguished roster of contributors and topics ranging across academic disciplines and the arts (including commentary on film, music, literature, theater, television, and visual cultures), this volume is not only required reading for scholars serious about the various dimensions of black performance, it is also a timely and necessary teaching tool. It captures the excitement and intellectual innovation of a field that has come of age. Kudos!"
--Dwight A. McBride, author of Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch
"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 revolutionary anthology that will be widely read and taught. It crisscrosses continents and cultures and examines confluences and influences of black popular culture -- music, dance, theatre, television, fashion and film. It also adds a new dimension to current discussions of racial, ethnic, and national identity."
--Horace Porter, author of The Making of a Black Scholar
--Kimberly Benston, author of Performing Blackness
"Black Cultural Traffic is nothing less than our generation's manifesto on black performance and popular culture. With a distinguished roster of contributors and topics ranging across academic disciplines and the arts (including commentary on film, music, literature, theater, television, and visual cultures), this volume is not only required reading for scholars serious about the various dimensions of black performance, it is also a timely and necessary teaching tool. It captures the excitement and intellectual innovation of a field that has come of age. Kudos!"
--Dwight A. McBride, author of Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch
"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 revolutionary anthology that will be widely read and taught. It crisscrosses continents and cultures and examines confluences and influences of black popular culture -- music, dance, theatre, television, fashion and film. It also adds a new dimension to current discussions of racial, ethnic, and national identity."
--Horace Porter, author of The Making of a Black Scholar
Table of Contents
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- Twenty Questions
- pp. ix-x
- PART ONE: Crossroads and Intersections in Black Performance and Black Popular Culture
- When Is African Theater “Black”?
- pp. 43-58
- PART TWO: Stop Signs and Signposts: Stabilities and Instabilities in Black Performance and Black Popular Culture
- Optic Black:Naturalizing the Refusal to Fit
- pp. 111-140
- Diaspora Aesthetics and Visual Culture
- pp. 141-161
- PART THREE:International Congestion: Globalization, Dispersions, and Black Cultural Travel
- Global Hip-Hop and the African Diaspora
- pp. 266-288
- PART FOUR: Trafficking in Black Visual Images: Television, Film, and New Media
- Where Have All the Black Shows Gone?
- pp. 311-325
- Spike Lee’s Bamboozled
- pp. 346-362
- Contributors
- pp. 389-395
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472025459
Related ISBN(s)
9780472068401, 9780472098408
MARC Record
OCLC
588869387
Pages
416
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No