In an era of Big Data and algorithms, our easy access to the archive of contemporary and historical Blackness is unprecedented. That iterations of Black visual art, such as Bert Williams's 1916 silent film short "A Natural Born Gambler" or the performances of Josephine Baker fro…
"Black Ephemera explores the crisis and the challenge of the Black Musical archive in a moment when Black American culture has become a global import, yet the cultural DNA of that culture is becoming obscured in the transformation from analog to digital"--.
"Black Ephemera explores the crisis and the challenge of the Black Musical archive in a moment when Black American culture has become a global import, yet the cultural DNA of that culture is becoming obscured in the transformation from analog to digital"--
The author "is one of the most creative and insightful intellectuals on the contempoirary scene exploring how black popular music, especially R & B, provides a complex and rich historical legacy of submerged memories and communities of struggle that encompass the lived experienc…
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Cultural critic Mark Anthony Neal argues that R&B can tell us much about the dynamic joys, apprehensions, tensions, & contradictions of contemporary African American life. Reading the music as both guide & metaphor, Neal examines prevailing currents of the African American exper…
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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