Black Popular Culture,9781565844599

Black Popular Culture

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ISBN13: 9781565844599
ISBN10: 1565844599
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-09-01
Publisher(s): New Pr
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Summary

A Village Voice Best Book of the Year, Black Popular Culture includes "spirited debate among African American artists and cultural critics about issues from essentialism to sexuality" (Publishers Weekly). Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series copublished with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.

Table of Contents

A Note on the Series VII(2)
Editor's Note IX
Black Pleasure, Black Joy: An Introduction 1(20)
Gina Dent
What is this "Black" in Black Popular Culture? 21(16)
Stuart Hall
I. Popular Culture: Theory and Criticism 37(58)
Nihilism in Black America
37(11)
Cornel West
Dialectically Down with the Critical Program
48(8)
bell hooks
The Documentary Impulse in Contemporary U.S. African-American Film
56(9)
Valerie Smith
The Politics of Interpretation: Black Critics, Filmmakers, Audiences
65(10)
Jacqueline Bobo
The Black Man's Burden
75(10)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Discussion
85(10)
II. Gender, Sexuality, and Black Images in Popular Culture 95(58)
The Accusatory Space
95(4)
Jacquie Jones
Unleash the Queen
99(7)
Marlon T. Riggs
The Body in Question
106(6)
Lisa Kennedy
Getting Down to Get Over: Romare Bearden's Use of Pornography and the Problem of the Black Female Body in Afro-U.S. Art
112(11)
Judith Wilson
Boyz N the Hood and Jungle Fever
123(9)
Michele Wallace
"You Cain't Trus' It": Experts Witnessing in the Case of Rap
132(7)
Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Discussion
139(14)
III. The Urban Context 153(70)
Toward a Redefinition of the Urban: The Collision of Culture
153(11)
John Jeffries
Two Words on Music: Black Community
164(9)
Sherley Anne Williams
Nostalgia for the Present: Cultural Resistance in Detroit 1977-1987
173(14)
Kofi Natambu
The Multicultural Wars
187(13)
Hazel V. Carby
Popular Culture and the Economics of Alienation
200(9)
Julianne Malveaux
Discussion
209(14)
IV. The Production of Black Popular Culture 223(56)
Black Texts/Black Contexts
223(5)
Tricia Rose
Seizing the Moving Image: Reflections of a Black Independent Producer
228(6)
Ada Gay Griffin
About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer
234(9)
Thomas Allen Harris
Preface to a One-Hundred-and-Eighty Volume Patricide Note: Yet Another Few Thousand Words on the Death of Miles Davis and the Problem of the Black Male Genius
243(6)
Greg Tate
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249(6)
Arthur Jafa
"Black Is, Black Ain't": Notes on De-Essentializing Black Identities
255(9)
Isaac Julien
Discussion
264(15)
V. Do the Right Thing: Postnationalism and Essentialism 279(54)
Pan-American Postnationalism: Another World Order
279(6)
Coco Fusco
Afro-Kitsch
285(7)
Manthia Diawara
Race, Identity, and Political Culture
292(11)
Manning Marable
It's a Family Affair
303(14)
Paul Gilroy
Black Nationalism: The Sixties and the Nineties
317(8)
Angela Y. Davis
Discussion
325(8)
Afterword: "Why Are There No Great Black Artists?" The Problem of Visuality in African-American Culture 333(14)
Michele Wallace
Bibliography of Related Sources 347(20)
Notes on Contributors 367(6)
Photo Credits 373

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