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Black popular culture
Title
Black popular culture / a project by Michele Wallace ; edited by Gina Dent.
ISBN
0941920240
9780941920247
0941920232
9780941920230
9781565844599
1565844599
Publication
Seattle : Bay Press, 1992.
Physical Description
ix, 373 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 6328: Title page verso: First printing, 1992. Paperbound. Bookseller's label: BLACK POPULAR CULTURE $18.95 0-952920232 BLACK STUDIES/T Shakespeare & Co - 850-7800. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
"Texts prepared by the participants in a three-day conference held at The Studio Museum in Harlem and at Dia's space in SoHo on December 8-10, 1991"--P. vii.
Summary
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
Discussion in contemporary culture / Dia Center for the Arts, no. 8
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-366).
Contents
Black pleasure, black joy : an introduction / Gina Dent
What is this "black" in black popular culture? / Stuart Hall
I. Popular culture : theory and criticism. Nihilism in black America / Cornel West
Dialectically down with the critical program / bell hooks
The documentary impulse in contemporary U.S. African-American film / Valeria Smith
The politics of interpretation : black critics, filmmakers, audiences / Jacqueline Bobo
The black man's burden / Henry Louis Gates, Jr
II. Gender, sexuality, and black images in popular culture. The accusatory space / Jacquie Jones
Unleash the queen / Marlon T. Riggs
The body in question / Lisa Kennedy
Getting down to get over : Romare Bearden's use of pornography and the problem of the black female body in Afro-U.S. art / Judith Wilson
Boyz n the hood and Jungle fever / Michele Wallace
"You cain't trus' it" : experts witnessing in the case of rap / Houston A. Baker, Jr.
III. The urban context
Toward a redefinition of the urban : the collision of culture / John Jeffries
Two words on music : black community / Sherley Anne Williams
Nostalgia for the present : cultural resistance in Detroit 1977-1987 / Kofi Natambu
The multicultural wars / Hazel V. Carby
Popular culture and the economics of alienation
IV. The production of black popular culture. Black texts/black contexts / Tricia Rose
Seizing the moving image : reflections of a black independent producer / Ada Gay Griffin
About face : the evolution of a black producer
Preface to a one-hundred-and-eighty volume patricide note : yet another few thousand words on the death of Miles Davis and the problem of the black male genius / Greg Tate
69 / Arthur Jafa
"Black is, black ain't" : notes on de-essentializing black identities / Isaac Julien
V. Do the right thing : postnationalism and essentialism. Pan-American postnationalism : another world order / Coco Fusco
Afro-kitsch / Manthia Diawara
Race, identity, and political culture / Manning Marable
It's a family affair / Paul Gilroy
Black nationalism : the sixties and the nineties / Angela Y. Davis
Afterword : "Why are there no great black artists?" The problem of visuality in African-American culture / Michele Wallace.
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