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How to go mad without losing your mind : madness and Black radical creativity /
"La Marr Jurelle Bruce ponders the presence of "madness" in black literature, music, and performance since the early twentieth century, showing how artist ranging from Kendrick Lamar and Lauryn Hill to Nina Simone and Dave Chappelle activate madness as content, form, aesthetic, strate...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2021
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| Colección: | Black outdoors.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prelude. The slave ship tows the ship of fools
- Mad is a place
- "He blew his brains out through the trumpet" : Buddy Bolden and the impossible sound of madness
- Interlude. "No wiggles in the dark of her soul" : Black neurosis, art, murder
- The blood-stained bed
- A portrait of the artist as a mad Black woman
- "The people inside my head, too" : madness, Black womanhood, and the radical performance of Lauryn Hill
- The joker's wild but that nigga's crazy : Dave Chappelle laughs until it hurts
- Songs in madtime : madness, Black music, and metaphysical syncopation
- Afterword. The nutty professor (A confession).