Ebook: Language, Rhythm, & Sound: Black Popular Cultures Into the Twenty-First Century

Focusing on expressions of popular culture among Black people in Africa, the United States and the Caribbean, this collection of 15 multidisciplinary essays takes on a range of subjects, from American girls' Double Dutch games to protest discourse in Ghana; from Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale to the work of Zora Neale Hurston; from South African workers to Just Another Girl on the IRT; from the history of Rasta to the evolving significance of kente cloth; from rap video music to hip-hop to zouk.