Language, Rhythm and Sound: Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-First Century - Softcover

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

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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’ Double Dutch games to protest discourse in Ghana; from Terry McMillan’s 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’s lives by constructing identities that resist cultural, capitolist, colonial, and postcolonial domination.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den 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.

Adrianne R. Andrews is assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of several articles on Africana women’s studies.

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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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Verlag
University of Pittsburgh Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822956209
ISBN 13 
9780822956204
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
400
Herausgeber
Adjaye Joseph K., Andrews Adrianne R.
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