Jemma Decristo

The Aesthetic Character of Blackness

Sounds Like Us

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Produktbeschreibung

Jemma DeCristo shows how black aesthetics beautifies an anti-black world that wields black art and culture as a weapon against black life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478029212
• ISBN-10: 1478029218
• Artikelnr.: 73732066

Autorenporträt

Jemma DeCristo is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Black Art Against Black People ix
Introduction 1
1. Emancipating the Spaces of Sonic Capture 31
2. More Nearly Members of the Family: The Ugly Hiss 67
3. Ma Rainey’s Phonograph 103
4. Music Against the Subject 133
5. Sounds Like Us: On Beautification 167
Coda. Self-Defense Against Density 207
Acknowledgments 211
Notes 213
Bibliography 245
Index