Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Popular culture and the Black experience / Joseph K. Adjaye
  • The discourse of Kente cloth : from haute couture to mass culture / Joseph K. Adjaye
  • Sarbeeb : the art of oblique communication in Somali culture / Said S. Samatar
  • Nana Ampadu, the Sung-tale metaphor, and protest discourse in contemporary Ghana / Kwesi Yankah
  • Using Afrikan proverbs to provide an Afrikan-centered narrative for contemporary Afrikan-American parental values / Huberta Jackson-Lowman
  • The frustrated project of soul in the drama of Ed Bullins / Nathan L. Grant
  • Of Mules and men and men and women : the ritual of talking B[l]ack / Adrianne R. Andrews
  • Debunking the beauty myth with Black pop culture in Terry McMillan's Waiting to exhale / Rita B. Dandridge
  • A womanist turn on the hip-hop theme : Leslie Harris's Just another girl on the IRT / Andre Willis
  • Translating the double-dutch to hip-hop : the musical vernacular of Black girls play / Kyra D. Gaunt
  • The language culture of rap music videos / Patricia A. Washington and Lynda Dixon Shaver
  • The sound of culture : dread discourse and Jamaican sound systems / Louis Chude-Sokei
  • "An-Ba-Chen'n La (Chained together) : the landscape of Kassav's Zouk / Brenda F. Berrian
  • Mas' in Broklyn : immigration, race, and the cultural politics of Carnival / Rachel Buff
  • Popular music, appropriation, and the circular culture of labor migration in Southern Africa : the case of South Africa and Malawi / Lupenga Mphande and Ikechukwu Okafor Newsum
  • Cultural survivalisms and marketplace subversions : Black popular culture and politics into the twenty-first century / Tricia Rose.