Ebook: Empire and black images in popular culture
Author: Wright Joshua K.
- Tags: Empire (Television program : 2015), African Americans on television, PERFORMING ARTS / Reference
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: McFarland & Company
- Language: English
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"FOX's musical drama Empire has been hailed as the savior of broadcast television, drawing 15 million viewers weekly. A "hip-hopera" inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear and 1980s prime-time soap Dynasty, the series is at the forefront of a black popular culture Renaissance yet has stirred controversy in the black community"--