From Jim Crow to Jay-Z : race, rap, and the performance of masculinity /
White, Miles,1954-
Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press,
c2011.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-153) and index.
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.
Shadow and act : American popular music and the absent black presence -- The fire this time : black masculinity and the politics of racial performance -- Affective gestures : hip-hop aesthetics, blackness and the literacy of performance -- Real niggas : black men, hard men, and the rise of gangsta culture -- Race rebels : whiteness and the new masculine desire.
Rap (Music)
African American men
Music and race.
Masculinity