{"product_id":"black-cultural-traffic-crossroads-in-global-performance-and-popular-culture-9780472068401","title":"Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A shrewdly designed  generously expansive  timely contribution to our understanding of how black expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments  and together provide a robust conversation about the nature  history  future  and even possibility of blackness as a distinctive mode of cultural practice.\" --Kimberly Benston  author of Performing Blackness  \"Black Cultural Traffic is nothing less than our generations manifesto on black performance and popular culture. With a distinguished roster of contributors and topics ranging across academic disciplines and the arts (including commentary on film  music  literature  theater  television  and visual cultures)  this volume is not only required reading for scholars serious about the various dimensions of black performance  it is also a timely and necessary teaching tool. It captures the excitement and intellectual innovation of a field that has come of age. Kudos!\" --Dwight A. McBride  author of Why I Hate Abercrombie \u0026amp; Fitch  \"The explosion of interest in black popular culture studies in the past fifteen years has left a significant need for a reader that reflects this new scholarly energy. Black Cultural Traffic answers that need.\" --Mark Anthony Neal  author of Songs in the Key of Black Life  \"A revolutionary anthology that will be widely read and taught. It crisscrosses continents and cultures and examines confluences and influences of black popular culture -- music  dance  theatre  television  fashion and film. It also adds a new dimension to current discussions of racial  ethnic  and national identity.\" --Horace Porter  author of The Making of a Black Scholar\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647229714485,"sku":"ByrdShop_0472068407","price":26.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780472068401.jpg?v=1781690189","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/black-cultural-traffic-crossroads-in-global-performance-and-popular-culture-9780472068401","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}