Language, Rhythm, and Sound: Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-first Century - Tapa blanda

 
9780822956204: Language, Rhythm, and Sound: Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-first Century
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ISBN 10: 0822956209 ISBN 13: 9780822956204
Editorial: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

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.

De la contraportada

This book focuses on expressions of popular culture among blacks in selected areas of Africa and its diaspora--specifically, the United States and the Caribbean. Proceeding from the dual premise that culture is a complex system of signification as well as a socially constructed product, the contributors to this volume, through their respective disciplinary prisms, seek to penetrate the hidden language of symbols in black popular culture in order to decode, decipher, and 'translate' them, to reveal their multiple meanings, functions, and roles.

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Editorial
University of Pittsburgh Press
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0822956209
ISBN 13 
9780822956204
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
336
Editor
Adjaye Joseph K., Andrews Adrianne R.
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9780822939672: Language, Rhythm, and Sound: Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-first Century

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ISBN 10:  0822939673 ISBN 13:  9780822939672
Editorial: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997
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