new reads: "Black Cultural Traffic"
Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture has just been released (December 2005) by the University of Michigan Press. I had been anticipating the arrival of this anthology for a minute every since Tim'm West gave me a head's up last year about his piece in the book and the great "who's who" of cultural studies/performance studies scholars featured throughout. I just picked it up last week, and havent put it down since. Great articles across the board, and of course the pieces by Kobena Mercer, Tim'm, Manthia Diawara, Caroline Streeter, E. Patrick Johnson, and Jenn Brody were of particular interest. Check out the exciting table of contents below.
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Foreword
Tricia Rose vii
Twenty Questions
Donald Byrd ix
Introduction: Traveling While Black
Kennell Jackson 1
PART ONE
Crossroads and Intersections in Black Performance and
Black Popular Culture
When Is African Theater “Black”?
Catherine M. Cole 43
Performing Blackness Down Under: Gospel Music in Australia
E. Patrick Johnson 59
Passing and the Problematic of Multiracial Pride (or, Why One
Mixed Girl Still Answers to Black)
Danzy Senna 83
The Shadows of Texts: Will Black Music and Singers Sell
Everything on Television?
Kennell Jackson 88
PART TWO
Stop Signs and Signposts: Stabilities and Instabilities in Black
Performance and Black Popular Culture
Optic Black: Naturalizing the Refusal to Fit
W. T. Lhamon, Jr. 111
Diaspora Aesthetics and Visual Culture
Kobena Mercer 141
Keepin’ It Real: Disidentication and Its Discontents
Tim’m T. West 162
Faking the Funk? Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and (Hybrid)
Black Celebrity
Caroline A. Streeter 185
Interlude: Black Artists on Issues of Culture and Performance 208
PART THREE
International Congestion: Globalization, Dispersions,
and Black Cultural Travel
Black Community, Black Spectacle: Performance and Race in
Transatlantic Perspective
Tyler Stovall 221
The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown
Manthia Diawara 242
Global Hip-Hop and the African Diaspora
Halifu Osumare 266
Continental Riffs: Praisesingers in Transnational Contexts
Paulla A. Ebron 289
PART FOUR
Trafficking in Black Visual Images: Television, Film,
and New Media
Where Have All the Black Shows Gone?
Herman Gray 311
Hip-Hop Fashion, Masculine Anxiety, and the Discourse
of Americana
Nicole R. Fleetwood 326
Spike Lee’s Bamboozled
Harry J. Elam, Jr. 346
Moving Violations: Performing Globalization and Feminism
in Set It Off
Jennifer Devere Brody 363
Change Clothes and Go: A Postscript to Postblackness
Harry J. Elam, Jr.
379
Contributors 389
Index 397
You shed so much freaking light...
You are an old soul man...
I seen some things in this anthology that my just have me reading it, instead of my german book.
kudos to you kid, kudos...
Posted by
The Divo |
12/29/2005
Damn...You've been reading...you better do it! (gay lingo)
Happy New Year!
Posted by
WATER |
12/30/2005
why the hell cain't i get no good english books in colombia?
(verif code: bsssa)
Posted by
Karamale |
1/05/2006
thanks for the shout, Frank. I've been enjoying it myself. Need to get back up to NYC and NYU soon. Let's make it happen. I have this lecture I've been doing on "Memoir As Theory" that's pretty provocative. You know I'm down for whatever, kid.
stay up!
PS: you've got some fanz down here in DC, man. LOL. That's all I'm gonna say.
Posted by
About Tim'm |
1/06/2006