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Contemporary Black History Ser.: Soul Thieves : The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture by Tamara Lizette Brown and Baruti N. Kopano (2014, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN-100230108970
ISBN-139780230108974
eBay Product ID (ePID)108915125
Product Key Features
Number of PagesXxvii, 284 Pages
Publication NameSoul Thieves : the Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
SubjectSocial History, Popular Culture, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
TypeTextbook
AuthorTamara Lizette Brown, Baruti N. Kopano
Subject AreaSocial Science, History
SeriesContemporary Black History Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight169.4 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2015-413382
Reviews"This ground breaking interdisciplinary publication is long overdue and offers deep insight into the efficacy of African American popular culture and it's critical impact on shaping artistic cultural production on a global scale. The contributors, leading scholars in their respective research areas, set the record straight through their thought provoking and accessible historical research." - Melanye White Dixon, Associate Professor, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, USA , "Soul Thieves is a collection of essays thatcritically weighs the consequences of appropriating black culture. ... The volumehas broad appeal and informs academics how black material culture is conversantwith many of the same discourses as conventional historical narratives. ... SoulThieves is a welcomed addition to interdisciplinary fields, African Americanstudies in particular." (Kameelah L. Martin, Journal of American Culture, Vol.102 (3), December, 2015) "This ground breaking interdisciplinary publication is long overdue and offers deep insight into the efficacy of African American popular culture and it's critical impact on shaping artistic cultural production on a global scale. The contributors, leading scholars in their respective research areas, set the record straight through their thought provoking and accessible historical research." - Melanye White Dixon, Associate Professor, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, USA
Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal305.896073
Table Of ContentPreface; Tamara Brown PART I: ENTERTAINMENT AND FASHION 1. 'So You Think You Can Dance'; Tamara Brown 2. 'Foraging Fashion'; Abena Lewis-Mhoon 3. 'In the Eye of the Beholder: Definitions of Beauty in Popular Black Magazines'; Kimberly Brown PART II: BLACK POWER STUDIES 4. 'Neutering the Black Power Movement: The Hijacking of Protest Symbolism'; James B. Stewart 5. 'Silent Protest: The Appropriation of Black Athletic Power'; Jamal Ratchford 6. Black Comic Book Characters; David T. Terry PART III: MUSIC AND TECHNOLOGY 7. Soul Thieves: White America and the Appropriation of Hip Hop and Black Culture; Baruti Kopano 8. I'm Hip: An Exploration of Rap Music's Creative Guise; Kawachi Clemmons 9. 'Cash Rules Everything Around Me! Appropriation, Commodification and the Politics of Hip Hop and Contemporary Protest Music'; Diarra Osei Robinson 10. 'The Appropriation of Blackness in Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show'; Carlos D. Morrison and Ronald L. Jackson, Jr.
SynopsisConsiders the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony., Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture is a timely and engaging multidisciplinary collection of essays that examines both historically and contemporary manifestations of appropriated and commodified forms of African American popular culture. The book includes analyses of the misuse and in some cases outright abuse of black popular culture through various genres. Hip hop is, and has been, one of the most dominant African American popular culture creations and is denoted in many of the offerings in this volume; however, Soul Thieves is a historically inclusive documentation of the misappropriation of black popular culture, thus spanning other areas and genres besides the contemporary and current craze including music, dance, television, film, fashion and beauty, sports, and popular fiction. This book documents that historically African Americans have been in the forefront in the creation of American popular culture. It is suitable for classroom adoption, supplemental reading and general reading.
LC Classification NumberHN
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