Robert J. Patterson

Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality

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Produktbeschreibung

Despite rhythm and blues culture¿s undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how R&B culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial, and economic desires within and for African American communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978803596
• ISBN-10: 1978803591
• Artikelnr.: 54010986

Autorenporträt

ROBERT J. PATTERSON is a professor of African American Studies and served as the inaugural chair of the Department of African American Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is the editor of Black Cultural Production After Civil Rights, a coeditor of The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture (Rutgers University Press),  and author of Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface                                                                   
  
Introduction
1. Reading Race, Gender, and Sex: Black Intimate Relations, Black
Inequality,  
and the Rhythm and the Blues Imagination
2. "Whip Appeal:" Reading Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds 
3. "Freak Like Me:" Reading Adina
Howard                                                   
4."Didn't We Almost Have It All:" Reading Whitney
Houston                              
Epilogue                     
Appendix A                           
Appendix B                                                                
             
Appendix C
Acknowledgements
Bibliography