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Staging habla de negros : radical performances of the African diaspora in early modern Spain
\"An interdisciplinary exploration of white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s\"--Provided by publisher.
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Afro-Mexico
This study of African-based dance in Mexico explores the influence of African people and their cultural productions on Mexican society, showing how dance can embody social histories and relationships.
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Au Carrefour de Langues et de Cultures
Aktuelle Entwicklungen der geographischen und medialen Durchmischung führen zu hybriden Konstrukten und lassen gesellschaftliche und individuelle Mehrsprachigkeit immer mehr zu (europäischen) Schlüsselmerkmalen werden.
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Ulysses in Black
In this groundbreaking work, Patrice D. Rankine asserts that the classics need not be a mark of Eurocentrism, as they have long been considered. Instead, the classical tradition can be part of a self-conscious, prideful approach to African American culture, esthetics, and identity.
Ulysses in Black demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors have been students of classical languages, literature, and mythologies by such writers as Homer, Euripides, and Seneca.
Ulysses in Black closely analyzes classical themes (the nature of love and its relationship to the social, Dionysus in myth as a parallel to the black protagonist in the American scene, misplaced Ulyssean manhood) as seen in the works of such African American writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Countee Cullen. Rankine finds that the merging of a black esthetic with the classics—contrary to expectations throughout American culture—has often been a radical addressing of concerns including violence against blacks, racism, and oppression. Ultimately, this unique study of black classicism becomes an exploration of America’s broader cultural integrity, one that is inclusive and historic.
Outstanding Academic Title,
Choice Magazine
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Prehistory of Jazz
This publication follows the history of discoveries pertaining to Portuguese travel to the New World, from the 15th century to the 1920s, with an emphasis on the events leading to the development of jazz. The diversity of cultural influences from all over the world have made the United States a treasury of improvised music. Hendler portrays the development of American music scenes in centuries past, reporting on aspects such as the background of the slave trade, particularly in the Antilles, the music of European immigrant families, and the sounds of the (Spanish-controlled) Mississippi. He sketches the musical relationships between Cuba and the United States and their influence on American popular music around 1900. The highly fashionable march music leaves its mark, as do ragtime and spirituals, all blending to form an impressive repertoire of improvised music. The reader is inspired by the richness of forms and styles and the power of the artistic performances in the prehistory of jazz.
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Frenchness and the African diaspora : identity and uprising in contemporary France
In 2005, following the death of two youths of African origin, France
erupted in a wave of violent protest. More than 10,000 automobiles were burned or
stoned, hundreds of public buildings were vandalized or burned to the ground, and
hundreds of people were injured. Charles Tshimanga, Didier Gondola, Peter J. Bloom,
and a group of international scholars seek to understand the causes and consequences
of these momentous events, while examining how the concept of Frenchness has been
reshaped by the African diaspora in France and the colonial legacy.
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