Miles White

From Jim Crow to Jay-Z

Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Negotiating identity in hip-hop culture

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9780252078323
• ISBN-10: 0252078322
• Artikelnr.: 33375783

Autorenporträt

Formerly a professional musician and entertainment journalist, Miles White teaches at City University of Seattle in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Inhaltsangabe

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Shadow and Act: American Popular Music and the Absent Black Presence
2 The Fire This Time: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Racial
Performance
3 Affective Gestures: Hip-hop Aesthetics, Blackness, and the Literacy of
Performance
4 Real Niggas: Black Men, Hard Men, and the Rise of Gangsta Culture
5 Race Rebels: Whiteness and the New Masculine Desire
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
References
Index