Cultural moves
Subtitle: African Americans and the politics of representation
By: Herman S. Gray.
Series: American crossroads -- 15.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: African Americans on television; African Americans -- Songs and music -- History and criticism
Description: "Examines the importance of culture in the push for black political power and social recognition and argues the key black cultural practices have been notable in reconfiguring the shape and texture of social and cultural life in the U.S. Drawing on examples from jazz, television, and academia, Gray highlights cultural strategies for inclusion in the dominant culture as well as cultural tactics that move beyond the quest for mere recognition by challenging, disrupting, and unsettling dominant cultural representations and institutions. In the end, Gray challenges the conventional wisdom about the centrality of representation and politics in black cultural production"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Strategies, tactics, moves; title: The new conditions of Black cultural production; title: Jazz tradition, institutional formation, and cultural practice; title: The jazz left; title: Where have all the Black shows gone?; title: Television and the politics of difference; title: Different dreams, dreams of difference; title: Cultural politics as outrage(ous); title: Is (cyber) space the place?; title: Music, identity, and new technology; title: Cultural moves.