Graduate Seminar: Critical Readings in Black Popular Culture – AAAS 890S-01
Duke University
Professor Mark Anthony Neal, Ph.D.
Monday 6:15 – 8:45
Course Synopsis
Critical Readings in Black Popular Culture examines historic examples of black popular expression and the ways that this expression has been used to articulate African-American and other diasporic identities within the political, social and cultural realms. In addition the course will take into account the ways in which a developing “culture industry” undermined, distorted and affirmed essentialist notions of “Black” identity and the ways that black cultural workers have used popular culture to counter this process, while also taking advantage of the economic and social opportunities provided by the ”culture industry . Topics will include popular aesthetic movements such as the Black Arts and Post-Soul Movements, the emergence of and institutionalization of hip-hop, Blaxploitation era cinema, black television, black visual art, black performance studies, the generational divide(s) within black popular culture and the discourses of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class which circulate through black popular culture.
Texts
Stuart Hall: Critical Studies in Cultural Studies
—ed. David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen
Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910
—Daphne Brooks
Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930—ed. W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s
—Erin D. Chapman
Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery
—Glenda Carpio
In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post Civil Rights Era
—Richard Iton
Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era
—Francesca T. Royster
Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-Hop and Black Politics
—Lester Spence
Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
—Natalie Hopkinson
Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
—Nicole R. Fleetwood
Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left
—Cynthia A. Young
Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity
—Jacqueline Stewart
Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power
—Christine Acham
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