Language, Rhythm, and Sound
Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-first Century
Published on 15. March 1997
337 pages
978-0-8229-7177-1 (ISBN)
Description
Focusing on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States, and the Caribbean 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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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.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Popular Culture and the Black Experience - Joseph K. Adjaye
- Part I: The Aesthetics of Culture
- 2. The Discourse of Kente Cloth: From Haute Couture to Mass Culture - Joseph K. Adjaye
- 3. Sarbeeb: The Art of Oblique Communication in Somali Culture - Said S. Samatar
- 4. Nana Ampadu, the Sung-Tale Metaphor,and Protest Discourse in Contemporary Ghana - Kwesi Yankah
- 5. Using Afrikan Proverbs to Provide an Afrikan-Centered Narrrative for Contemporary Afrikan-American Parental Values - Huberta Jackson-Lowman
- 6. The Frustrated Project of Soul in the Drama of Ed Bullins - Nathan L. Grant
- Part II: Culture and the Construction of Gendered Identities
- 7. Of Mules and Men and Men and Women: The Ritual of Talking B[l]ack - Adrianne R. Andrews
- 8. Debunking the Beauty Myth with Black Pop Culture in Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale - Rita B. Dandridge
- 9. A Womanist Turn on the Hip-Hop Theme: Leslie Harris's Just Another Girl on the IRT - Andre Willis
- 10. Translating Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop: The Musical Vernacular of Black Girls' Play - Kyra D. Gaunt
- 11. The Language Culture of Rap Music Videos - Patricia A. Washington and Lynda Dixon Shaver
- Part III. The Culture and Politics of Sound
- 12. The Sound of Culture: Dread Discourse and Jamaican Sound Systems - Louis Chude-Sokei
- 13. "An-Ba-Chen'n La" (Chained Together): The Landscape of Kassav's Zouk - Brenda F. Berrian
- 14. Mas' in Broklyn: Immigration, Race, and the Cultural Politics of Carnival - Rachel Buff
- 15. Popular Music, Appropriation, and the Circular Culture of Labor Migration in Southern Africa: The Case of South Africa and Malawi - Lupenga Mphande and Ikechukwu Okafor Newsum
- Part IV: Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-First Century
- 16. Cultural Survivalisms and Marketplace Subversions: Black Popular Culture and Politics into the Twenty-first Century - Tricia Rose
- Notes
- References
- Contributors
- Index
