The Gift of Laughter

Fauset, Jessie Redmon

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“…'The smile that hovered above blood and tragedy', W.E.B. Du Bois offered a tribute book (Rowland 1923); Jessie Fauset's brilliant New Negro chapter (Fauset 1925), 'The Gift of Laughter', resembled Ellen Willis later on Bob Dylan as the cartography of an icon's mask. In 1970, Ann Charters, a Beats scholar (her husband Sam wrote studies of Country Blues early and a biography of Lucy McKim Garrison late; their collaborative marriage is an untold history), published Nobody, the 'story of a man neatly trapped by the prejudice and intolerance of his time'.…”

Section: Literary Sentimental Vernaculars and Us Popular Music Writingmentioning

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American music writing: an unruly history

Weisbard

2021

Pop. Mus.

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Popular music writing has made for strange colleagues and quickly lost legacies. I want to sketch some of them and suggest how they continue to influence the US version of popular music studies, arguably more so in our moment than in the previous period that codified an academic approach. I'll be anecdotal, alive to particulars of language, affiliation, method and form rather than attempting a quantification. Ranging from William Billings in 1770 to Daphne Brooks in 2021, I'll explore how such key framings as vernacular, sentimental and literary have shaped the nature of books on song. My hope is that, in synthesizing the larger history, I can suggest why so often this work could be characterized as, to use one of Robert Palmer's favourite words, unruly.

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Section: Literary Sentimental Vernaculars and Us Popular Music Writingmentioning

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American music writing: an unruly history

Weisbard

2021

Pop. Mus.

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Bringing Afrocentricity to the Funnies: An Analysis of Afrocentricity Within Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks

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Krishnasamy

2010

Journal of Black Studies

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Cartoonist Aaron McGruder entered the syndicated comic strip arena in 1998. As an African American, McGruder’s social commentary, political criticism, and jokes have a perspective on America unlike White syndicated cartoonists. Yet one cannot assume that his comic strip is Afrocentric simply because McGruder is African American. The authors of this work attempt to determine if McGruder—through his characters—speaks from an Afrocentric perspective. More specifically, the authors analyzed McGruder’s comic strips to determine if the principles and concepts of Afrocentricity, including the 10 principles of nommo, were present within the comic strip. It was determined through The Boondocks , he speaks of resistance, liberation, peace, harmony, and does so in the “language” of African Americans—Ebonics. He places African Americans at the center of his discourse and gauges the external world through the lens of his young African American characters.

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The Gift of Laughter

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American music writing: an unruly history

American music writing: an unruly history

Bringing Afrocentricity to the Funnies: An Analysis of Afrocentricity Within Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks

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