Umfang:
Online-Ressource (x, 288 p)
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24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0691004749
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0691004730
Inhalt:
In Culture on the Margins, Jon Cruz recounts the "discovery" of black music by white elites in the nineteenth century, boldly revealing how the episode shaped modern approaches to studying racial and ethnic cultures. Slave owners had long heard black song making as meaningless "noise." Abolitionists began to attribute social and political meaning to the music, inspired, as many were, by Frederick Douglass's invitation to hear slaves' songs as testimonies to their inner, subjective worlds. This interpretive shift--which Cruz calls "ethnosympathy"--marks the beginning of a mainstream American i
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-288 p.) and indexes
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780691004747
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Culture on the Margins : The Black Spiritual and the Rise of American Cultural Interpretation
Sprache:
Englisch
