Title From Jim Crow to Jay-Z : race, rap, and the performance of masculinity / by Miles White.

Publication Info.	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	782.421649 W586F	Check Shelf

Description	163 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	African American music in global perspective
	African American music in global perspective.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-153) and index.
Contents	Shadow and act : American popular music and the absent black presence -- The fire this time : black masculinity and the politics of racial performance -- Affective gestures : hip-hop aesthetics, blackness and the literacy of performance -- Real niggas : black men, hard men, and the rise of gangsta culture -- Race rebels : whiteness and the new masculine desire.
Summary	This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male culture to stereotypes of deviance, misogyny, and excess. Broadening the significance of hip-hop culture by linking it to other expressive forms within popular culture, Miles White examines how these representations have both encouraged the demonization of young black males in the United States and abroad and contributed to the construction of their identities.
Subject	Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States.
	African American men -- Race identity.
	Music and race.
	Masculinity -- United States.
	African American men -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst00799250
	Masculinity. (OCoLC)fst01011027
	Music and race. (OCoLC)fst01030486
	Rap (Music) -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01089957
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Männlichkeit. (DE-588)4123701-8
	Rap. (DE-588)4303518-8
	Schwarze. (DE-588)4116433-7
	United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
	Hiphop (musik) -- sociala aspekter -- Förenta staterna.
ISBN	9780252036620 (cloth)
	025203662X (cloth)
	9780252078323 (paperback)
	0252078322 (paperback)

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