Perspectives of Black Popular Culture

Perspectives of Black Popular Culture

Author: Harry B. Shaw

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780879725044

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A collection of analyses of aspects of Black popular culture and also a celebration of Black popular culture that gives recognition and appreciation to its range, its uniqueness, and its place and role in the wide variety of experience that comprise American popular culture. Acidic paper. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


White Rebels in Black

White Rebels in Black

Author: Priscilla Layne

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0472130803

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany


Black Popular Culture

Black Popular Culture

Author: Gina Dent

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1565844599

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The latest publication in the award-winning Discussions in Contemporary Culture series, Black Popular Culture gathers together an extraordinary array of critics, scholars, and cultural producers. 30 essays explore and debate current directions in film, television, music, writing, and other cultural forms as created by or with the participation of black artists. 30 illustrations.


Popular Culture

Popular Culture

Author: Marcel Danesi

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1442217839

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives seeks to define pop culture by exploring the ways that it fulfills our human desire for meaning.The second edition investigates current contexts for popular culture, including the rise of the digital global village through new technology and offers up-to-date examples that connect with today's students."


Language, Rhythm, and Sound

Language, Rhythm, and Sound

Author: Joseph K. Adjaye

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 1997-03-15

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0822971771

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.


Fade to Black and White

Fade to Black and White

Author: Erica Chito Childs

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

There is no teasing apart what interracial couples think of themselves from what society shows them about themselves. Following on her earlier ground-breaking study of the social worlds of interracial couples, Erica Chito Childs considers the larger context of social messages, conveyed by the media, that inform how we think about love across the color line. Examining a range of media_from movies to music to the web_Fade to Black and White offers an informative and provocative account of how the perception of interracial sexuality as 'deviant' has been transformed in the course of the 20th century and how race relations are understood today.


Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture

Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture

Author: Andrew F. Herrmann

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2016-10-12

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1498523935

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business and organizational communication, mass communication, media studies, narrative, rhetoric, gender studies, autoethnography, popular culture studies, and journalism. The contributors tackle such topics as music, broadcast and Netflix television shows, movies, the Internet, video games, and more, as they connect popular culture to personal concerns as well as larger political and societal issues. The variety of approaches in these chapters are simultaneously situated in the present while building a foundation for the future, as contributors explore new and emerging ways to approach popular culture. From case studies to emerging theories, the contributors examine how popular culture, media, and communication influence our everyday lives.


Beyond Blackface

Beyond Blackface

Author: William Fitzhugh Brundage

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0807834629

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Beyond Blackface


Rethinking Popular Culture

Rethinking Popular Culture

Author: Chandra Mukerji

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1991-07-09

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9780520068933

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Rethinking Popular Culture presents some of the most important current scholarship analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon recent developments in cultural theory and exciting new methods of critical analysis, the essays in this volume break down disciplinary boundaries and offer fresh insight into popular culture.


Am I Black Enough for You?

Am I Black Enough for You?

Author: Todd Boyd

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1997-03-22

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780253211057

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The most creative moments of African American culture have always emanated from a lower class or "ghetto" perspective. In contemporary society, this ghetto aesthetic has informed a large segment of the popular marketplace from the incendiary nature of gangsta rap, through the choreographed violence of films like Menace II Society, to recurrent debates around the use of the word "nigga," and even the assertion of this perspective in professional basketball. In each case, most of the discussion around these cultural circumstances tends to be dismissive, if not completely uninformed. In analyzing the ranges of images from the O. J. Simpson trial to Snoop Doggy Dogg, Am I Black Enough for You looks at the way in which the nuances of ghetto life get translated into the politics of popular culture, and especially the way these politics have become such a profitable venture, for both the entertainment industry and the actual producers of these topical narratives. The book follows the widening generation gap represented by Bill Cosby's pristine "race man" image in the mid-80's, culminating in the proliferation of the hard-core sentiments associated with the nigga in the 1990's. The book argues for a historical understanding of these contemporary examples, which is rooted in the social policies of the Reagan/Bush era, the declining industrial base of urban communities and the increasing significance of the drug trade and gang culture. In addition, the book follows the evolution of gangster culture in twentieth century American popular culture and the shift from ethnicity to race that slowly begins to emerge over this time period. Contrary to mainstream conservative sentiment, Am I Black Enough for You suggests that the criticism of gangsta culture is a misguided attempt which reaffirms traditional views about Black culture. This criticism is articulated across race, so that in many cases, African Americans articulate the same sentiments as their white conservative counterparts. Am I Black Enough for You offers astute analysis of the liberating possibilities of representation that lie at the core of contemporary black popular culture.