A01=Herman Gray
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african american culture
african americans
america
american politics
Author_Herman Gray
Author_Herman S. Gray
black americans
black artists
black culture
black musical tradition
black musicians
black political power
black scholars
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collection of essays
cultural history
cultural identity
cultural visibility
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legitimacy
lincoln center
nonfiction essays
politics of representation
popular culture
social change
social inclusion
sociology
united states
wynton marsalis
Product details
- ISBN 9780520241442
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 2005
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Herman Gray takes a sweeping look at black popular culture over the past decade to explore culture's role in the push for black political power and social recognition. In a series of linked essays, he finds that black artists, scholars, musicians, and others have been instrumental in reconfiguring social and cultural life in the United States and he provocatively asks how black culture can now move beyond a preoccupation with inclusion and representation. Gray considers how Wynton Marsalis and his creation of a jazz canon at Lincoln Center acted to establish cultural visibility and legitimacy for jazz. Other essays address such topics as the work of the controversial artist Kara Walker; the relentless struggles for representation on network television when those networks are no longer the primary site of black or any other identity; and how black musicians such as Steve Coleman and George Lewis are using new technology to shape and extend black musical traditions and cultural identities.
Herman S. Gray is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for Blackness (1995) and Producing Jazz: Theresa Records, Case Study of Jazz Independent (1988).
