ISBN:
9780252036620
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (177 p)
Series Statement:
African American Music in Global Perspective
Series Statement:
African Amer Music in Global Perspective Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version From Jim Crow to Jay-Z : Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Music and race
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Music and race
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male culture to stereotypes of deviance, misogyny, and excess. Broadening the significance of hip-hop culture by linking it to other expressive forms within popular culture, Miles White examines how these representations have both encouraged the demonization of young black males in the United States and abroad and contributed to the construction of their identities._x000B_From Jim Crow to Jay-Z traces black male representations to chattel slavery and American minstrelsy as early examples of fetishization and commodification of black male subjectivity. Continuing with diverse discussions including black action films, heavyweight prizefighting, Elvis Presley's performance of blackness, and white rappers such as Vanilla Ice and Eminem, White establishes a framework for interpreting and critiquing black masculinity in music and culture.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Shadow and Act: American Popular Music and the Absent Black Presence -- 2 The Fire This Time: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Racial Performance -- 3 Affective Gestures: Hip-hop Aesthetics, Blackness, and the Literacy of Performance -- 4 Real Niggas: Black Men, Hard Men, and the Rise of Gangsta Culture -- 5 Race Rebels: Whiteness and the New Masculine Desire -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Shadow and Act: American Popular Music and the Absent Black Presence""; ""2 The Fire This Time: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Racial Performance""; ""3 Affective Gestures: Hip-hop Aesthetics, Blackness, and the Literacy of Performance""; ""4 Real Niggas: Black Men, Hard Men, and the Rise of Gangsta Culture""; ""5 Race Rebels: Whiteness and the New Masculine Desire ""; ""Epilogue""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
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