Black Cultural Traffic - Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Paperback)

"A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together provide a robust conversation about the nature, history, future, and even possibility of 'blackness' as a distinctive mode of cultural practice."
--Kimberly Benston, author of "Performing Blackness"
""Black Cultural Traffic "is nothing less than our generation's manifesto on black performance and popular culture. With a distinguished roster of contributors and topics ranging across academic disciplines and the arts (including commentary on film, music, literature, theater, television, and visual cultures), this volume is not only required reading for scholars serious about the various dimensions of black performance, it is also a timely and necessary teaching tool. It captures the excitement and intellectual innovation of a field that has come of age. Kudos!"
--Dwight A. McBride, author of "Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch"
"The explosion of interest in black popular culture studies in the past fifteen years has left a significant need for a reader that reflects this new scholarly energy. Black Cultural Traffic answers that need."
--Mark Anthony Neal, author of "Songs in the Key of Black Life"
"A revolutionary anthology that will be widely read and taught. It crisscrosses continents and cultures and examines confluences and influences of black popular culture -- music, dance, theatre, television, fashion and film. It also adds a new dimension to current discussions ofracial, ethnic, and national identity."
--Horace Porter, author of "The Making of a Black Scholar"

General

Imprint:	The University of Michigan Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	December 2005
Editors:	Harry J. Elam • Kennell Jackson
Dimensions:	156 x 233 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-472-06840-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Promotions
LSN:	0-472-06840-7
Barcode:	9780472068401

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