How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind : Madness and Black Radical Creativity /

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"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psyc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruce, La Marr Jurelle, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Racism > Psychological aspects.
Racism in popular culture.
Racism and the arts.
Eurocentrism > Psychological aspects.
Creative ability > Psychological aspects.
African Americans in the performing arts.
African American artists.
Racism in popular culture > United States.
Racism and the arts > United States.
Racism > United States > Psychological aspects.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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).

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