Black cultural traffic
Subtitle: crossroads in global performance and popular culture
By: edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr., and Kennell Jackson.
Contributors: Elam, Harry Justin.; Jackson, Kennell A.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780472098408; 9780472068401
Subjects: African Americans -- Race identity.; Blacks -- Race identity.; African Americans -- Intellectual life.; Blacks -- Intellectual life.; Popular culture -- United States.; Popular culture.; African American arts.; Arts, Black.; Performing arts -- Social aspects -- United States.; Performing arts -- Social aspects.
Description: 'Black Cultural Traffic' traces how blackness travels globally in performance. The essays engage with critical issues such as circulation, cultural appropriation, commodification, commercialization and hybridity.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : traveling while Black / Kennell Jackson; title: When is African theater "Black"? / Catherine M. Cole; title: Performing Blackness down under : gospel music in Australia / E. Patrick Johnson; title: Passing and the problematic of multiracial pride (or, why one mixed girl still answers to Black) / Danzy Senna; title: The shadows of texts : will black music and singers sell everything on television? / Kennell Jackson; title: Optic Black : naturalizing the refusal to fit / W. T. Lhamon, Jr; title: Diaspora aesthetics and visual culture / Kobena Mercer; title: Keeping it real : disidentification and its discontents / Tim'm T. West; title: Faking the funk? : Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and (hybrid) Black celebrity / Caroline A. Streeter; title: Black community, Black spectacle : performance and race in transatlantic perspective / Tyler Stovall; title: The 1960s in Bamako : Malick Sidibé and James Brown / Manthia Diawara; title: Global hip-hop and the African diaspora / Halifu Osumare; title: Continental riffs : praise singers in transnational contexts / Paulla A. Ebron; title: Where have all the Black shows gone? / Herman Gray; title: Hip-hop fashion, masculine anxiety, and the discourse of Americana / Nicole R. Fleetwood; title: Spike Lee's bamboozled / Harry J. Elam, Jr.; title: Moving violations : performing globalization and feminism in set it off / Jennifer Devere Brody; title: Change clothes and go : a postscript to postblackness / Harry J. Elam, Jr.