{"product_id":"language-rhythm-and-sound-black-popular-cultures-into-the-twenty-first-century-9780822956204","title":"Language, Rhythm, and Sound: Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-first Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocusing on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States, and the Carribean this collection of multidisciplinary essays takes on subjects long overdue for study. Fifteen essays cover a world of topics, from American girls' Double Dutch games to protest discourse in Ghana; from Terry McMillan's \u003ci\u003eWaiting to Exhale\u003c\/i\u003e to the work of Zora Neale Hurston; from South African workers to \u003ci\u003eJust Another Girl on the IRT\u003c\/i\u003e; from the history of Rasta to the evolving significance of kente clothl from rap video music to hip-hop to zouk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe contributors work through the prisms of many disciplines, including anthropology, communications, English, ethnomusicology, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political economy, psychology, and social work. Their interpretive approaches place the many voices of popular black cultures into a global context. It affirms that black culture everywhere functions to give meaning to people's lives by constructing identities that resist cultural, capitolist, colonial, and postcolonial domination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph K. Adjaye\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.19h x 6.09w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822956204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph K. Adjaye is associate professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of \u003ci\u003eDiplomacy and Diplomats in Nineteenth-century Asante, Time in the Black Experience.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Adrianne R. Andrews is assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of several articles on Africana women's studies.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40198639157363,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":35.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d2b8f5bf-1b11-496d-8220-c94f29acc029.jpg?v=1656079781","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/language-rhythm-and-sound-black-popular-cultures-into-the-twenty-first-century-9780822956204","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}