Language, Rhythm, & Sound: Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-First Century - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0822939673 ISBN 13 : 9780822939672

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997

Synopsis

Focusing on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States, and the Carribean this collection of multidisciplinary essays takes on subjects long overdue for study. Fifteen essays cover a world of topics, from American girls\u2019 Double Dutch games to protest discourse in Ghana; from Terry McMillan\u2019s Waiting to Exhale to the work of Zora Neale Hurston; from South African workers to Just Another Girl on the IRT; from the history of Rasta to the evolving significance of kente clothl from rap video music to hip-hop to zouk.
The contributors work through the prisms of many disciplines, including anthropology, communications, English, ethnomusicology, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political economy, psychology, and social work. Their interpretive approaches place the many voices of popular black cultures into a global context. It affirms that black culture everywhere functions to give meaning to people\u2019s lives by constructing identities that resist cultural, capitolist, colonial, and postcolonial domination.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Joseph K. Adjaye is associate professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Diplomacy and Diplomats in Nineteenth-century Asante, Time in the Black Experience.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822939673
• ISBN 13: 9780822939672
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Adjaye Joseph, Andrews Adrianne
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