From Jim Crow to Jay-Z - Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity

Informationen zum Autor Formerly a professional musician and entertainment journalist, Miles White teaches at City University of Seattle in Bratislava, Slovakia. Klappentext Formerly a professional musician and entertainment journalist, Miles White teaches at City University of Seattle in Bratislava, Slovakia. Zusammenfassung Negotiating identity in hip-hop culture Inhaltsverzeichnis CoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Shadow and Act: American Popular Music and the Absent Black Presence2 The Fire This Time: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Racial Performance3 Affective Gestures: Hip-hop Aesthetics, Blackness, and the Literacy of Performance4 Real Niggas: Black Men, Hard Men, and the Rise of Gangsta Culture5 Race Rebels: Whiteness and the New Masculine DesireEpilogueAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Miles White
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2011
• EAN: 9780252078323
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07832-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: University of Illinois Press; African Amer Music in Global Perspective; African American Music in Glob; African Amer Music in Global Perspective
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories