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Language, rhythm, & sound : Black popular cultures into the twenty-first century

Title
Language, rhythm, & sound : Black popular cultures into the twenty-first century / edited by Joseph K. Adjaye and Adrianne R. Andrews.
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Adjaye, Joseph K., 1940-
  • Andrews, Adrianne R.
Description
x, 324 p.; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
Language, rhythm, and sound
Subject
  • African Americans > Race identity
  • Popular culture > United States
  • African American arts
  • African Americans > Cultural assimilation
  • Black people > Race identity
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-310) and index.
Contents
The discourse of kente cloth / Joseph K. Adjaye -- Sarbeeb : the art of oblique communication in Somali culture / Said S. Samatar -- Nana Ampadu, the sung-tale metaphor, and protest discourse in contemporary Ghana / Kwesi Yankah -- Using Afrikan proverbs to provide an Afrikan-centered narrative for contemporary Afrikan-American parental values / Huberta Jackson-Lowman -- The frustrated project of soul in the drama of Ed Bullins / Nathan L. Grant -- Of Mules and men and men and women : the ritual of talking B(l)ack / Adrianne R. Andrews -- Debunking the beauty myth with Black pop culture in Terry McMillan's Waiting to exhale / Rita B. Dandridge -- A womanist turn on the hip-hop theme : Leslie Harris's Just another girl on the IRT / Andre Willis -- Translating double-dutch to hip-hop : the musical vernacular of Black girls' play / Kyra D. Gaunt -- The language culture of rap music videos / Patricia A. Washington and Lynda Dixon Shaver -- The sound of culture : dread discourse and Jamaican sound systems / Louis Chude-Sokei -- "An-ba-chen'n-la" (Chained together) : the landscape of Kassav's Zouk / Brenda F. Berrian -- Mas' in Broklyn : immigration, race, and the cultural politics of Carnival / Rachel Buff -- Popular music, appropriation, and the circular culture of labor migration in Southern Africa / Lupenga Mphande and Ikechukwu Okafor Newsum -- Cultural survivalisms and marketplace subversions : Black popular culture and politics into the twenty-first century / Tricia Rose.
Call Number
JFE 97-6436
ISBN
  • 0822939673 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 0822956209 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
96045890
OCLC
35911491
Title
Language, rhythm, & sound : Black popular cultures into the twenty-first century / edited by Joseph K. Adjaye and Adrianne R. Andrews.
Imprint
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1997.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-310) and index.
Added Author
Adjaye, Joseph K., 1940-
Andrews, Adrianne R.
Research Call Number
JFE 97-6436
Sc E 97-320
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