Language, Rhythm, and Sound
Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-first Century
Published on 27. February 1997
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-8229-3967-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
I cannot stress too often the originality of this collection. It is a first in the field. The writing, editing, and organization are even and inviting to the general reader as well as the specialist. . . . A much-needed cutting-edge collection. * Haki Madhubuti, Chicago State University * This book is a very important collection. Its fusion of empirical research with methodological discourse will make it an important book for those interested in popular/urban cultures-not just black cultures. * Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh PA
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8229-3967-2 (9780822939672)
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Persons
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.