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Cultural Studies

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White Rebels in Black

German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

By Priscilla Dionne Layne
Subjects: German Studies, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany

The British Blues Network

Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity

By Andrew Kellett
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, European Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s

 

Rhymin' and Stealin'

Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop

By Justin A Williams
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Music
Series: Tracking Pop

The first book-length study of one of the most essential elements of hip-hop: musical borrowing

The Magellan Fallacy

Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish

By Adam Lifshey
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, African American Studies

Now available in paperback—the award-winning first study of Spanish-language literature of Southeast Asia and West Africa

Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex

Race, Madness, Activism

By Tony Perucci
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, African American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era

Four Jazz Lives

By A.B. Spellman
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African American Studies, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A revival of a classic oral biography of four nearly overlooked jazz giants

Race, Liberalism, and Economics

Edited by David Colander, Robert E. Prasch, and Falguni A. Sheth
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Cultural Studies, African American Studies, Political Science

Explores how economic reasoning relates to the broader concepts of liberalism and racism

Parodies of Ownership

Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law

By Richard L. Schur
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African American Studies, Law, Music, Literary Studies

An intriguing interdisciplinary examination of hip hop aesthetics

Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism

Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement

By Mike Sell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, African American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores the dynamic interactions of performance, politics, and literary criticism in three U.S countercultures in the 1950s and 60s

Harlem Calling

The Collected Stories of George Wylie Henderson

By George Wylie Henderson
Edited by David G. Nicholls
Subjects: African American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Cultural Studies

The collected stories of George Wylie Henderson, an Alabama writer of the Harlem Renaissance

Boogaloo

The Quintessence of American Popular Music

By Arthur Kempton
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Music

The much-anticipated paperback edition of Arthur Kempton's story on the art, influence, and commerce of Black American popular music

One Nation Under A Groove

Motown and American Culture

By Gerald Lyn Early
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Cultural Studies, African American Studies

How Motown changed the landscape of American popular culture

Dancing Histories

Heuristic Ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo

By John C. McCall
Subjects: Anthropology, African American Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance

Outlines a method for incorporating indigenous knowledge into anthropological work as a source of theoretical alternatives

Whispered Consolations

Law and Narrative in African American Life

By Jon-Christian Suggs
Subjects: African American Studies, Law, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Explores the relationship between African American literature and American law

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