Table of Contents:
- Black pleasure, black joy : an introduction / Gina Dent
- What is this "black" in black popular culture? / Stuart Hall
- I : Popular culture : theory and criticism
- Nihilism in black America / Cornel West
- Dialectically down with the critical program / bell hooks
- The documentary impulse in contemporary U.S. African-American film / Valeria Smith
- The politics of interpretation : black critics, filmmakers, audiences / Jacqueline Bobo
- The black man's burden / Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- II : Gender, sexuality, and black images in popular culture
- The accusatory space / Jacquie Jones
- Unleash the queen / Marlon T. Riggs
- The body in question / 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 / Judith Wilson
- Boyz n the hood and Jungle fever / Michele Wallace
- "You cain't trus' it" : experts witnessing in the case of rap / Houston A. Baker, Jr.
- III : The urban context
- Toward a redefinition of the urban : the collision of culture / John Jeffries
- Two words on music : black community / Sherley Anne Williams
- Nostalgia for the present : cultural resistance in Detroit 1977-1987 / Kofi Natambu
- The multicultural wars / Hazel V. Carby
- Popular culture and the economics of alienation
- IV : The production of black popular culture
- Black texts/black contexts / Tricia Rose
- Seizing the moving image : reflections of a black independent producer / Ada Gay Griffin
- About face : the evolution of a black producer
- 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 / Greg Tate
- 69 / Arthur Jafa
- "Black is, black ain't" : notes on de-essentializing black identities / Isaac Julien
- V : Do the right thing : postnationalism and essentialism
- Pan-American postnationalism : another world order / Coco Fusco
- Afro-kitsch / Manthia Diawara
- Race, identity, and political culture / Manning Marable
- It's a family affair / Paul Gilroy
- Black nationalism : the sixties and the nineties / Angela Y. Davis
- Afterword : "Why are there no great black artists?" The problem of visuality in African-American culture / Michele Wallace.
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| Online version:Black popular culture.Seattle : Bay Press, ©1992 (OCoLC)645812281 |
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| Gina Dent; Michele Wallace; Dia Center for the Arts (New York, N.Y.) Find more information about: Gina Dent Michele Wallace |
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| ix, 373 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Black pleasure, black joy : an introduction / Gina Dent --
What is this "black" in black popular culture? / Stuart Hall --
I. Popular culture : theory and criticism. Nihilism in black America / Cornel West --
Dialectically down with the critical program / bell hooks --
The documentary impulse in contemporary U.S. African-American film / Valeria Smith --
The politics of interpretation : black critics, filmmakers, audiences / Jacqueline Bobo --
The black man's burden / Henry Louis Gates, Jr --
II. Gender, sexuality, and black images in popular culture. The accusatory space / Jacquie Jones --
Unleash the queen / Marlon T. Riggs --
The body in question / 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 / Judith Wilson --
Boyz n the hood and Jungle fever / Michele Wallace --
"You cain't trus' it" : experts witnessing in the case of rap / Houston A. Baker, Jr. --
III. The urban context --
Toward a redefinition of the urban : the collision of culture / John Jeffries --
Two words on music : black community / Sherley Anne Williams --
Nostalgia for the present : cultural resistance in Detroit 1977-1987 / Kofi Natambu --
The multicultural wars / Hazel V. Carby --
Popular culture and the economics of alienation --
IV. The production of black popular culture. Black texts/black contexts / Tricia Rose --
Seizing the moving image : reflections of a black independent producer / Ada Gay Griffin --
About face : the evolution of a black producer --
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 / Greg Tate --
69 / Arthur Jafa --
"Black is, black ain't" : notes on de-essentializing black identities / Isaac Julien --
V. Do the right thing : postnationalism and essentialism. Pan-American postnationalism : another world order / Coco Fusco --
Afro-kitsch / Manthia Diawara --
Race, identity, and political culture / Manning Marable --
It's a family affair / Paul Gilroy --
Black nationalism : the sixties and the nineties / Angela Y. Davis -- Afterword : "Why are there no great black artists?" The problem of visuality in African-American culture / Michele Wallace. |
| Discussions in contemporary culture, no. 8. |
| a project by Michele Wallace ; edited by Gina Dent. |
The latest publication in the award-winning Discussions in Contemporary Culture series, Black Popular Culture gathers together an extraordinary array of critics, scholars, and cultural producers. 30 essays explore and debate current directions in film, television, music, writing, and other cultural forms as created by or with the participation of black artists.
Discussions in Contemporary Culture #8
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Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published 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.
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