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crossroads in global performance and popular culture
'Black Cultural Traffic' traces how blackness travels globally in performance. The essays engage with critical issues such as circulation, cultural appropriation, commodification, commercialization and hybridity.
Introduction : traveling while Black / Kennell Jackson -- Part One. Crossroads and intersections in black performance and black popular culture. When is African theater "Black"? / Catherine M. Cole ; Performing Blackness down under : gospel music in Australia / E. Patrick Johnson ; Passing and the problematic of multiracial pride (or, why one mixed girl still answers to Black) / Danzy Senna ; The shadows of texts : will black music and singers sell everything on television? / Kennell Jackson -- Part two. Stop signs and signposts: stabilites and instabilities in black performance and black popular culture. Optic Black : naturalizing the refusal to fit / W.T. Lhamon, Jr. ; Diaspora aesthetics and visual culture / Kobena Mercer ; Keepin' it real : disidentification and its discontents / Tim'm T. West ; Faking the funk? : Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and (hybrid) Black celebrity / Caroline A. Streeter ; Interlude : Black artists on issues of culture and performance -- Part three. International congestions: globalization, dispersions, and black cultural travel. Black community, Black spectacle : performance and race in transatlantic perspective / Tyler Stovall ; The 1960s in Bamako : Malick Sidibé and James Brown / Manthia Diawara ; Global hip-hop and the African diaspora / Halifu Osumare ; Continental riffs : praisesingers in transnational contexts / Paulla A. Ebron -- Part four. Trafficking in black visual images: television, film, and new media. Where have all the Black shows gone? / Herman Gray ; Hip-hop fashion, masculine anxiety, and the discourse of Americana / Nicole R. Fleetwood ; Spike Lee's Bamboozled / Harry J. Elam, Jr. ; Moving violations : performing globalization and feminism in Set it off / Jennifer Devere Brody ; Change clothes and go : a postscript to postblackness / Harry J. Elam, Jr.
edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr., and Kennell Jackson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2005