Shana L Redmond: 2 books
Anthem
Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
For people of African descent, music constitutes a unique domain of expression. From traditional West African drumming to South African kwaito, from spirituals to hip-hop, Black life and history has been dynamically displayed and contested through sound. Shana Redmond excavates the sonic histories of...
Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production
Two Haiku and a Microphone
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders. The volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning...