...Ray B. Browne Browne , Ray B. Against Academia: The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement, 1967–1988 . Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University...

...Andrew Ross Ross , Andrew . No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture . New York : Routledge , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 JOO BlodtSollfHIMusic Bill with a forty-one derringer; Bennett also decides he is going to kill everyone that ever betrayed...

...Cary D. Wintz Wintz , Cary D. Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance . Houston : Rice University Press , 1988 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 JJ6 BlodcSondMlllk It's a mean black moan and it's lying front my door When I leave Chicago Lord I ain't coming back...

...Robbie Lieberman Lieberman , Robbie . “My Song Is My Weapon”: People’s Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930–1950 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 nition to the religion so that its members...

...Andrew M. Greeley Greeley , Andrew M. God in Popular Culture . Chicago : Thomas More Press , 1988 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 T6 BlodcSoeredMush rock and roll is particularly informative: "Blacks create and then move on. Whites document and then recycle...

...Jim Collins Collins , Jim . Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism . New York : Routledge , 1989 . Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Book lenews 61 studying law, he was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1854 (the publication year of Simpson's second...

...Michael Eric Dyson Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Perlorman,e, Protest, and Prophety in the Culture ol Hip-Hop Michael Eric Dyson From the very beginning of its history, hip-hop music-or "rap," as it has come to be known-has faced various obstacles. Initially, rap was deemed...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Towards a Broader American Culture In a climate of internationalism, American culture has gone back­ ward instead of forward during the last twenty-five years. We have not forgotten it, but we certainly went overboard on Russian musical...

...: they actually devised provisional philosophical solutions to render evil and suffer- 1. James H. Cone, The Spirituals and the Blues (San Francisco: Harper&. Row, 1972), 125-26. 2. Lawrence W. Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (New York: Oxford...

...Michael Eric Dyson Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Rap Culture, the Church, and American Society Michael Eric Dyson The fevered response that rap culture has recently evoked presents a telling contrast to the tepid indifference that greeted its obscure origins in New York's...

...Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. © Copyright 1989 JBSM /Jon Michael Spencer 1989 Music as Cultural Expression in Black Church Theology and Worship Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. In 1898 W E. B. DuBois stated that the three key elements of the black church worship experience were the preacher, the music...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Nathaniel Dett One of Our "Cultural Pioneers" The death of Dr. Robert Nathaniel Dett stilled the voice of one of our cultural pioneers, a composer and choral conductor whose work will be long remembered. Dr. Dett was one of the first American...

...D. Soyini Madison Michael Eric Dyson . Reflecting Black: African American Cultural Criticism . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1993 . Pp. xxxiii, 346 . Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Book Reviews Michael Eric Dyson. Reflecting Black: African...

...Thomas Poole Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Tracy Chapman: Jedermann, Prophet, or Cultural Na"ator1 Thomas Poole What I intend on doing in this essay is to discuss the music of Tracy Chapman in the light of her occupation as a prophet, Jedermann, or cultural narrator. As I...

...Peter Bubmann Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Dreamtime and Tribal Ritual: Elements of a Critical Theory of Popular Music Peter Bubmann In a 1992 lecture on the media and commercialism, the American theologian Harvey Cox almost wallowed in the terminology of cultural criticism...

... of black issues by black persons does not make a discourse Afrocentric (169-70). "Afrocentricity," as defined by Molefi Asante, means "placing African ideals at the center of any analysis that involves African culture and behavior" (6). At the ontological level, it is "the most complete philosophical...

...Michael Eric Dyson Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Rights and Responsibilities: 2 Live Crew and Rap's Moral Vision Michael Eric Dyson Sex, race, and class have played a critical role in numerous American cultural revolutions during this century. The civil rights, feminist...

...Philip M. Royster Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 The Rapper as Shaman lor a Band ol Danters ol the Spirit: #U Can't Touth This" Philip M. Royster Rap music is now undoubtedly the most significant popular conveyor of the spiritual traditions of African-American cultures. 1...

..., Patrick. Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1983 . Callahan, David, ed. The Secular City Debate. New York: Macmillan, 1966. Camus, Albert . The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, trans. Anthony Bower. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Cone...

... became apparent about Pareles' assessment of Songs in the Key of Life. First, it is not to a 1960s form of Hippie spirituality that Stevie Wonder appeals in his music, but rather to historic black cultural norms arising out of black folk religious traditions. In this light, Stevie Wonder is accentuating...