From Jim Crow to Jay-Z
Subtitle: race, rap, and the performance of masculinity in American popular culture
By: Miles White
Series: African american music in global perspective
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780252036620; 9780252078323
Subjects: Rap (Music); African American men; Masculinity; Race identity; Music and race
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shadow and act : American popular music and the absent black presence; title: The fire this time : black masculinity and the politics of racial performance; title: Affective gestures : hip-hop aesthetics, blackness and the literacy of performance; title: Real niggas : black men, hard men, and the rise of gangsta culture; title: Race rebels : whiteness and the new masculine desire.