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Stolen Time - Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze (Paperback)
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Stolen Time - Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze (Paperback)
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In 1956 Harry Belafonte’s Calypso became the first LP to sell
more than a million copies. For a few fleeting months, calypso
music was the top-selling genre in the US—it even threatened to
supplant rock and roll. Stolen Time provides a vivid cultural
history of this moment and outlines a new framework—black fad
performance—for understanding race, performance, and mass culture
in the twentieth century United States. Vogel situates the calypso
craze within a cycle of cultural appropriation, including the
ragtime craze of 1890s and the Negro vogue of the 1920s, that
encapsulates the culture of the Jim Crow era. He follows the fad as
it moves defiantly away from any attempt at authenticity and
shamelessly embraces calypso kitsch. Although white calypso
performers were indeed complicit in a kind of imperialist theft of
Trinidadian music and dance, Vogel argues, black calypso craze
performers enacted a different, and subtly subversive, kind of
theft. They appropriated not Caribbean culture itself, but the US
version of it—and in so doing, they mocked American notions of
racial authenticity. From musical recordings, nightclub acts, and
television broadcasts to Broadway musicals, film, and modern dance,
he shows how performers seized the ephemeral opportunities of the
fad to comment on black cultural history and even question the
meaning of race itself.
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