Black Chant
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Black Chant
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Author : Aldon Lynn Nielsen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-01-13
Black Chant written by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
A study of postmodernism and African-American poets.
The Tennessee Highway Death Chant
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Author : Keegan Jennings Goodman
language : en
Publisher: featherproof books
Release Date : 2016-08-09
The Tennessee Highway Death Chant written by Keegan Jennings Goodman and has been published by featherproof books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-09 with Fiction categories.
In a purgatory at the banks of the Hiwasee River in Southeastern Tennessee, two teenagers—the garrulous John Stone and the young Jenny Evenene—barrel through an endless night in a Firebird Trans Am. Jenny wakes each morning, the same morning, and chronicles the events of her final day, her memory reaching back into the recesses of mythical time, recollecting cosmogonies, eschatologies, and metamorphoses that mingle with the details of her violent end. As the two heroes drive through the night, drinking cold American beer and listening to the soothing tunes of the country music station, the dramatis personae of the process of decomposition encroach upon them from the darkness beyond the headlights: the turkey vultures that soar above them, baited by decaying corpses, are at once the successors of the sacred buzzard whose talons first massaged the earth into being and the double of the screaming chicken emblazoned on the hood of the Firebird, which is itself at once the illustrious automobile of teenage dreams, vehicle of transmigrating souls, and ancient phoenix, millennial sigil of the sun, of biochemical resurrections, and Heraclitean thunderbolt who steers all things.
Spectacular Blackness
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Author : Amy Abugo Ongiri
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2010
Spectacular Blackness written by Amy Abugo Ongiri and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Ongiri's captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. She traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in the Black Power movement's emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban vernacular culture.
Give Peace A Chant
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Author : Dario Martinelli
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-02-13
Give Peace A Chant written by Dario Martinelli and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-13 with Music categories.
This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, media studies, and political and social sciences. The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked. This book attempts to fill this gap. Its central thesis is that a complete overview of these repertoires demands a thorough interaction among contextual, lyrical, and musical elements together. To accomplish this, the author develops a novel model that systemizes and investigates musical repertoires. The model is then applied to four case studies, those, too, chosen among topics that are little (or not at all) frequented by scholars.
Fettered Genius
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Author : Keith D. Leonard
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2006
Fettered Genius written by Keith D. Leonard and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Fettered Genius, Keith D. Leonard identifies how African American poets' use and revision of traditional poetics constituted an antiracist political agency. Comparing this practice to the use of poetic mastery by the ancient Celtic bards to resist British imperialism, Leonard shows how traditional poetics enable African American poets to insert racial experience, racial protest, and African American culture into public discourse by making them features of validated artistic expression. As with the Celtic bards, these poets' artistry testified to their marginalized people's capacity for imagination and reason within and against the terms of the dominant culture. In an ambitious survey that moves from slavery to the cultural nationalism of the 1960s, Leonard examines numerous poets, placing each in the context of his or her time to demonstrate the antiracist meaning of their accomplishments. The book offers new insight on the conservatism of Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the genteel members of the Harlem Renaissance, how their rage for assimilation functioned to refute racist notions of difference and, paradoxically, to affirm a distinctive racial experience as valid material for poetry. Leonard also demonstrates how the more progressive and ethnically distinctive poetics of Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, and Melvin B. Tolson share some of the same ambivalence about cultural achievement as those of the earlier poets. They also have in common the self-conscious pursuit of an affirmation of the African American self through the substitution of African American vernacular language and cultural forms for traditional poetic themes and forms. The evolution of these poetics parallels the emergence of notions of ethnic identity over racial identity and, indeed, in some ways even motivated this shift. Leonard recognizes poetic mastery as the African American bardic poet's most powerful claim of ethnic tradition and of social belonging and clarifies the full hybrid complexity of African American identity that makes possible this political self-assertion. The development that is traced in Fettered Genius illustrates nothing less than the defining artistic coherence and political significance of the African American poetic tradition.
Renegade Poetics
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Author : Evie Shockley
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2011-10
Renegade Poetics written by Evie Shockley and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Beginning with a deceptively simple question--what do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as "black"?--Evie Shockley's Renegade poetics teases out the more complex and nuanced possibilities the concept has long encompassed. She redefines black aesthetics descriptively, resituating innovative poetry that has been marginalized becuase it was not "recognizably black" and avant-garde poetry dismissed because it was"--Back cover.
Reports Of Cases Argued And Determined In The Supreme Court Of New Zealand Southern District Province Of Otago Otago And Southland District
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Author : New Zealand. Supreme Court
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Reports Of Cases Argued And Determined In The Supreme Court Of New Zealand Southern District Province Of Otago Otago And Southland District written by New Zealand. Supreme Court and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Law reports, digests, etc categories.
Civil Rights Music
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Author : Reiland Rabaka
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-05-03
Civil Rights Music written by Reiland Rabaka and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with Social Science categories.
While there have been a number of studies that have explored African American “movement culture” and African American “movement politics,” rarely has the mixture of black music and black politics or, rather, black music an as expression of black movement politics, been explored across several genres of African American “movement music,” and certainly not with a central focus on the major soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement: gospel, freedom songs, rhythm & blues, and rock & roll. Here the mixture of music and politics emerging out of the Civil Rights Movement is critically examined as an incredibly important site and source of spiritual rejuvenation, social organization, political education, and cultural transformation, not simply for the non-violent civil rights soldiers of the 1950s and 1960s, but for organic intellectual-artist-activists deeply committed to continuing the core ideals and ethos of the Civil Rights Movement in the twenty-first century. Civil Rights Music: The Soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement is primarily preoccupied with that liminal, in-between, and often inexplicable place where black popular music and black popular movements meet and merge. Black popular movements are more than merely social and political affairs. Beyond social organization and political activism, black popular movements provide much-needed spaces for cultural development and artistic experimentation, including the mixing of musical and other aesthetic traditions. “Movement music” experimentation has historically led to musical innovation, and musical innovation in turn has led to new music that has myriad meanings and messages—some social, some political, some cultural, some spiritual and, indeed, some sexual. Just as black popular movements have a multiplicity of meanings, this book argues that the music that emerges out of black popular movements has a multiplicity of meanings as well.
Jimi Hendrix And The Cultural Politics Of Popular Music
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Author : Aaron Lefkovitz
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-03-28
Jimi Hendrix And The Cultural Politics Of Popular Music written by Aaron Lefkovitz and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-28 with Social Science categories.
This book, on Jimi Hendrix’s life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix’s relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation. Hendrix, an itinerant “Gypsy” and “Voodoo child” whose racialized “freak” visual image continues to internationally circulate, exploited the exoticism of his race, gender, and sexuality and Gypsy and Voodoo transnational political cultures and religion. Aaron E. Lefkovitz argues that Hendrix can be located in a legacy of black-transnational popular musicians, from Chuck Berry to the hip hop duo Outkast, confirming while subverting established white supremacist and hetero-normative codes and conventions. Focusing on Hendrix’s transnational biography and centrality to US and international visual cultural and popular music histories, this book links Hendrix to traditions of blackface minstrelsy, international freak show spectacles, black popular music’s global circulation, and visual-cultural racial, gender, and sexual stereotypes, while noting Hendrix’s place in 1960s countercultural, US-exceptionalist, cultural Cold War, and rock histories.
Chant Of Saints
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Author : Michael S. Harper
language : en
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1979
Chant Of Saints written by Michael S. Harper and has been published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Art categories.