TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - In search of the Black fantastic : politics and popular culture in the post-Civil Rights era
T2  - Transgressing boundaries
A1  - Iton, Richard
LA  - eng
PP  - Oxford ; New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2008
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2166390
AB  - Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change. But as Richard Iton shows in this provocative and insightful volume, despite the changes brought about by the civil rights movement, and contrary to the wishes of those committed to narrower conceptions of politics, black artists have continued to play a significant role in the making and maintenance of critical social spaces. Iton offers an original portrait of the relationship between popular culture and institutionalized politics tracing the connections between artists such as Paul Robeson, Lorraine Hansberry, Richard Pryor, Bob Marley and Erykah Badu and those individuals working in the protest, electoral, and policy making arenas. With an emphasis on questions of class, gender and sexuality-and diaspora and coloniality-the author also illustrates how creative artists destabilize modern notions of the proper location of politics, and politics itself.Ranging from theatre to film, and comedy to literature and contemporary music, In Search of the Black Fantastic is an engaging and sophisticated examination of how black popular culture has challenged our understandings of the aesthetic and its relationship to politics.
SN  - 0195178467 hardback
SN  - 9780195178463 hardback
KW  - 1900-luku
KW  - 2000-luku
KW  - African Americans in popular culture.
KW  - African Americans : Intellectual life.
KW  - African Americans : Politics and government : 20th century.
KW  - African Americans : Politics and government : 21st century.
KW  - African Americans : Race identity : Political aspects.
KW  - Political culture : United States.
KW  - Popular culture : Political aspects : United States.
KW  - afroamerikkalaiset
KW  - asenteet
KW  - identiteetti
KW  - kulttuuri
KW  - kulttuurielämä
KW  - kulttuurienvälisyys
KW  - poliittinen historia
KW  - politiikka
KW  - populaarikulttuuri
KW  - United States : Race relations : Political aspects.
KW  - Yhdysvallat
ER  -