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by | July 25, 2019 · 6:00 am

Afroperuvian feminisms

  Black women’s cultural activism in Lima, Perú, enacts a vibrant geohistory of respatializations of raced and gendered embodiment, advancing deprovincialized manifestations of the historical continuities, transnational ties, and internationalist impulses that connect otherwise localized and specific stories of diasporic … Continue reading →

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by | May 25, 2018 · 6:00 am

Bill Robinson taps past Jim Crow

During the Great Depression Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Shirley Temple made a number of films together in which narratives depict an America where black people are happy slaves or docile servants, Civil War (even southern) soldiers are noble Americans, and … Continue reading →

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by | March 8, 2018 · 6:00 am

Afro-sonic feminist funk

  Since it emerged as a distinct genre in the late 1960s and early 1970s funk has played an important role in American music and culture, in its foregrounding of polyrhythmic interplay, improvisation, and community formation, and in addressing issues … Continue reading →

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by | January 25, 2018 · 6:00 am

Extreme metal in Iraq and Syria

Heavy metal music can be a means of artistic expression; it can also be an accessory of war. Making its first appearance in Iraq and Syria in the 1980s, it has functioned as an agency of power, endurance, anger, and … Continue reading →

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by | November 11, 2017 · 6:00 am

Mose Allison and “Parchman Farm”

  In November 1957 Mose Allison recorded what would became his most celebrated and requested piece: Parchman Farm, a wickedly clever blues written from the viewpoint of an inmate at the infamous Mississippi State Penitentiary. But by the mid-1960s Allison … Continue reading →

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by | October 21, 2014 · 6:00 am

Celia Cruz’s (trans)nationalism

  Celia Cruz’s diverse musical repertoire served as a performative locus for the negotiations of both her Cubanness and her broader Latin American identity. Likewise, her construction of blackness as an Afro-Cuban woman transformed and was transformed by her collaborations … Continue reading →

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by | December 29, 2011 · 1:00 am

Air guitar and gender

  Like real rock guitar playing, air guitar—miming electric guitar playing without an instrument—is heavily informed by gendered practices in rock, where the electric guitar functions as a signifier of masculine power and implied sexual prowess, and performing on it … Continue reading →

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