Publication
Routledge (2003), Edition: 1, 314 pages
ISBN
041594399X / 9780415943994
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CONTENTS
Foreword - Migrancy, Culture, and a New Map of Europe
Introduction - Making the African American Experience Primary
1 - Jazz as Decal for the European Avant-Garde
2 - Blackness as Symptom: Josephine Baker and European Identity
3 - "Jungle in the Spotlight"?: Primitivism and Esteem: Katherine Dunham's 1954 German Tour
4 - Black Music, White Freedom: Times and Spaces of Jazz Countercultures in the USSR
5 - Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery Memorials in the United States and the Netherlands
6 - Dancing Away toward Home - An Interview with Bill T. Jones about Dancing in Contemporary Europe
7 - The Melancholic Influence of Postcolonial Spectral: Vera Mantero Summoning Josephine Baker
8 - Nights of Flamenco and Blues in Spain: From Sorrow Songs to Soleá and Back
9 - Monsieur Hip-Hop
10 - Rap, Rebounds, and Rocawear: The "Darkening" of German Youth Culture
11 - A.R.T., Klikk, K.A.O.S., and the Rest: Hungarian Youth Rapping
12 - But I Ain't African, I'm American!": Black American Exiles and the Construction of Racial Identities in Twentieth-Century France
13 - "Heroes across the Sea": Black and White British Fascination with African Americans in the Contemporary Black British Fiction of Caryl Phillips and Jackie Kay
14 - Never Shall We Be Slaves: Locke's Treatises, Slavery, and Early Modern European Modernity
15 - Make Capital Out of Their Sympathy: Rhetoric and Reality of U.S. Slavery and Italian Immigrant Prostitution along the Color Line from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-frst Century
16 - Blackening Gypsy Slavery: The Romanian Case
17 - "Niggas" and "Skins": Nihilism among African American Youth in Low-Income Urban Communities and East German Youth in Satellite Cities, Small Towns, and Rural Areas
Contributors
Index
Foreword - Migrancy, Culture, and a New Map of Europe
Introduction - Making the African American Experience Primary
1 - Jazz as Decal for the European Avant-Garde
2 - Blackness as Symptom: Josephine Baker and European Identity
3 - "Jungle in the Spotlight"?: Primitivism and Esteem: Katherine Dunham's 1954 German Tour
4 - Black Music, White Freedom: Times and Spaces of Jazz Countercultures in the USSR
5 - Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery Memorials in the United States and the Netherlands
6 - Dancing Away toward Home - An Interview with Bill T. Jones about Dancing in Contemporary Europe
7 - The Melancholic Influence of Postcolonial Spectral: Vera Mantero Summoning Josephine Baker
8 - Nights of Flamenco and Blues in Spain: From Sorrow Songs to Soleá and Back
9 - Monsieur Hip-Hop
10 - Rap, Rebounds, and Rocawear: The "Darkening" of German Youth Culture
11 - A.R.T., Klikk, K.A.O.S., and the Rest: Hungarian Youth Rapping
12 - But I Ain't African, I'm American!": Black American Exiles and the Construction of Racial Identities in Twentieth-Century France
13 - "Heroes across the Sea": Black and White British Fascination with African Americans in the Contemporary Black British Fiction of Caryl Phillips and Jackie Kay
14 - Never Shall We Be Slaves: Locke's Treatises, Slavery, and Early Modern European Modernity
15 - Make Capital Out of Their Sympathy: Rhetoric and Reality of U.S. Slavery and Italian Immigrant Prostitution along the Color Line from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-frst Century
16 - Blackening Gypsy Slavery: The Romanian Case
17 - "Niggas" and "Skins": Nihilism among African American Youth in Low-Income Urban Communities and East German Youth in Satellite Cities, Small Towns, and Rural Areas
Contributors
Index