Perspectives of Black Popular Culture / Edition 1

by Harry B. Shaw

Overview

While blacks have made perhaps their most obvious and substantial contributions to Western popular culture through music and dance, they have developed a rich popular culture in a number of other areas, including the visual arts, mass media, health practices, recreation, and literature. Glimpsed through any medium, black popular culture is the DNA that runs throughout the various kinds of black-and American-artistic achievement and shared experience, helping to identify, explain, and retain Africanisms and the essential blackness that emanate from the everyday lives of black people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879725044
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

Editorial Reviews

A collection of analyses of aspects of Black popular culture and also a celebration of Black popular culture that gives recognition and appreciation to its range, its uniqueness, and its place and role in the wide variety of experience that comprise American popular culture. Acidic paper. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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