Language, rhythm & sound :  Black popular cultures into the twenty-first century / 
 Language, rhythm, and sound 
edited by Joseph K. Adjaye and Adrianne R. Andrews. 
 - Pittsburgh, Pa. :  University of Pittsburgh Press,  [(c)1997.] 
 - 1 online resource (x, 324 pages) 
 - University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : Popular culture and the Black experience /    The discourse of Kente cloth : from haute couture to mass culture /    Sarbeeb : the art of oblique communication in Somali culture /    Nana Ampadu, the Sung-tale metaphor, and protest discourse in contemporary Ghana /    Using Afrikan proverbs to provide an Afrikan-centered narrative for contemporary Afrikan-American parental values /    The frustrated project of soul in the drama of Ed Bullins /    Of Mules and men and men and women : the ritual of talking B[l]ack /    Debunking the beauty myth with Black pop culture in Terry McMillan's Waiting to exhale /    A womanist turn on the hip-hop theme : Leslie Harris's Just another girl on the IRT /    Translating the double-dutch to hip-hop : the musical vernacular of Black girls play /    The language culture of rap music videos /    The sound of culture : dread discourse and Jamaican sound systems /    "An-Ba-Chen'n La (Chained together) : the landscape of Kassav's Zouk /    Mas' in Broklyn : immigration, race, and the cultural politics of Carnival /    Popular music, appropriation, and the circular culture of labor migration in Southern Africa : the case of South Africa and Malawi /    Cultural survivalisms and marketplace subversions : Black popular culture and politics into the twenty-first century /  Joseph K. Adjaye --   Joseph K. Adjaye --   Said S. Samatar --   Kwesi Yankah --   Huberta Jackson-Lowman --   Nathan L. Grant --   Adrianne R. Andrews --   Rita B. Dandridge --   Andre Willis --   Kyra D. Gaunt --   Patricia A. Washington and Lynda Dixon Shaver --   Louis Chude-Sokei --   Brenda F. Berrian --   Rachel Buff --   Lupenga Mphande and Ikechukwu Okafor Newsum --   Tricia Rose. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822971771 0822971771 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--Race identity.<br/>Popular culture--United States.<br/>African American arts.<br/>African Americans--Cultural assimilation.<br/>Black people--Race identity.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E185.625