Soul Thieves

The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-230-10897-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 4803 g

Reihe: Contemporary Black History

Considers 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, T.

Kopano, B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 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.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Kimberly Brown, Alabama State University, USA

Kawachi Clemons, Florida A & M University, USA

Ronald L. Jackson, II, University of Cincinnati, USA

Dr. Carlos D. Morrison, Alabama State University, USA
Dr. Abena Lewis-Mhoon, Coppin State University, USA

Jamal L. Ratchford, University of Indianapolis, USA

Diarra Osei Robertson, Bowie State University, USA

James B. Stewart, Penn State, USA

David Taft Terry, Morgan State University, USA