Globalization and Popular Culture MPCA/MACA - Regional Conference ·11 March 2008, 13:50 by Dustin Goltz
Globalization and Popular Culture
MPCA/MACA – Regional Conference
Oct. 3-5, 2008
Cincinnati, Ohio
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2008
The Globalization area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association invites papers/panels with theoretical, critical and empirical approaches to the global intersection of culture, international media studies, postcolonial studies, national cinema and any other topic related to popular culture on the global stage. The conference will be held at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio the weekend of October 3-5, 2008. For more information about the conference or how to submit to a different area, please visit the conference website at www.mpcaaca.org.
Your 250-word abstract or panel proposal must be received by April 30, 2008. Please include the title of your paper, your name (and the names of any co-presenters), school affiliation, mailing address and email address. Also, please indicate whether your presentation will require a DVD player (this is the only equipment that will be provided at the conference).
E-mail your submission to area chair Brian Ekdale, University of Wisconsin – Madison (brianekdale@gmail.com)
CFP: Anthology · 3 March 2008, 13:32 by Natasha Patterson
Call for Submissions for
Rebel Girl, Rebel Worlds: An Anthology of International Grrrl Zines
By Elke Zobl (Austria) with Red Chidgey (UK), Sonja Eismann (Germany/Austria) and Haydeé Jiménez (Mexico/USA)
DO YOU PUBLISH A ZINE WITH A FEMINIST TAKE AND WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF GRRRL ZINES?
We are zine activists who believe that the cut’n’paste revolution is an important part of contemporary movements for social change – whether it’s talking about messed up beauty standards, how to change rape culture, or how to fix the wheels on your bike, zines are crucial documents for everyday change, empowerment, and education.
To create a living archive of feminist zines from across the globe, we are working on an overview of the international Grrrl Zine Network; bringing together primary documents on a wide range of topics with analyses of the strengths and challenges of the Third Wave feminist movement. Based on Elke’s web site GRRRL ZINE NETWORK – A resource site for international grrrl, lady, queer and trans folk zines, distros and DIY projects (http://grrrlzines.net), we are compiling this anthology to document the variety and fierceness of pro-girl zinesters’ voices and are looking for your contributions!
The Book
Part grassroots history, part activist anthology, Rebel Girl, Rebel Worlds is a pioneering text, consisting of a mix of essays, interviews with zinesters, visual examples from zines, documentation of zine events, scene reports from various countries, resource guides and manifestos – all from a global viewpoint. We believe that zines are a vital form of alternative
media that provide stories, art, critiques and reportage lacking from the corporate-run, male-dominated presses. Zines help us to resist the status quo, engage with our feminism, and make a difference. This book hopes to provide a comprehensive overview of this culture in order to introduce zine-making to a broader audience, and to collect together some of the most inspiring writing from grrrls and their allies today.
Aims
This non-profit book hopes to represent a wide range of voices and experiences from the grrrl zine community. We do not strive for uniformity of opinion, but hope to build a picture of dissent, skill-sharing, collaboration and network building. This book will illustrate that grrrl and ladies in many countries are working on zines and keep the feminist movement alive and well! It is our aim that young women, feminists, trans-folk and their allies across the world will gain a sense of personal and political empowerment from reading this book, when they discover that they too can take the tools of cultural resistance into their own hands and contribute to the global feminist effort of dismantling patriarchy and effecting social change.
Please submit!
We are eager for this project to be as collaborative as possible. Please send us your zine, contact us if you know a cool zine you’d like to see included, let us know if you’d like to do an interview or are just curious about the project! We are open to suggestions and ideas! Submissions are welcomed from feminist zine producers, editors and distributors from all parts of the world (covering zines from 1980 to the present day).
Potential contributors could submit:
- Feminist zines (electronic or print) via email or postal mail
- Digital images from feminist zines (images, covers, photos,
illustrations, comics etc.) via email - Interviews with grrrl zinesters
- Essays on the grrrl zine community and Third Wave feminism
- Scene reports – what is the history of grrrl/feminist zines in your country?
- Comixs on third wave feminism/riot grrrl/girl zine culture
The call includes, but is not limited to, zines which address the
following topics:
- The personal is political
- Let’s smash patriarchy! Riot Grrrl, Feminism and Activism
- DIY revolution! Music, art, pop culture, and comics
- Ethnicity, race, colonialism
- Gender identities
- Women’s Bodies and Health, disabilities
- Zinemamas: Motherhood and alternative views of parenting
- The Beauty Myth: Body image and self-esteem
- Sex and Sexualities
- Survivor Culture: Abuse, Violence against women, self-defense
- Class, work and education
- Travel and leisure
- Religion and beliefs
- Environment and animal rights
- Protest, Dreams and Utopias
All submitted zines will be listed at www.grrrlzines.net. A selection of zine articles, interviews, essays and scene reports will be chosen to feature in the anthology.
Submissions:
Please include, a short biography, full contact details, date of birth and nationality.
Zines should be submitted to elke@grassrootsfeminism.net or via postal
Mail to: Elke Zobl, Roemerweg 22, 5061 Elsbethen, Austria (Europe).
by Monday, March 31, 2008. Many thanks!
We expect to complete the book by June 30, 2008. (The book proposal will be submitted to a feminist publisher in the USA)
Biographical notes on editors
Elke Zobl, Austria (*1975) created the online resource site Grrrl Zine Network (www.grrrlzines.net) in 2001 and has been part of the Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go collective conducting zine workshops with girls and young women in San Diego, USA (www.gzagg.org). Since her return to Austria for research projects on feminism and alternative media, she has conducted many zine workshops and exhibits. She is currently working on a comprehensive web
site on Grassroots Feminism: An archive and resource platform of the feminist movement today, www.grassrootsfeminism.net (up soon).
Red Chidgey, UK (*1979) has been involved in zine cultures for the past ten years, including running the pro-girl zine resource fingerbang distro. She received her MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, where she re-trained as a Life History researcher. She curated last year’s ZineFest! at the Women’s Library, London, and recently published a chapter on riot grrrl writing in Riot Girl: Revolution Grrrl Style Now! (Blackdog, 2007). www.redchidgey.net
Sonja Eismann, Germany/Austria (*1973) works as a pop culture
journalist and academic. She was a founding member of femzine nylon in Vienna and is writing on feminism and pop culture (www.plastikmaedchen.net). Recently, she published the anthology Hot Topic: Popfeminismus heute (2007).
Haydeé Jiménez , US/Mexico (*1981), grew up in Tijuana, Mexico. She studied International Relations with a focus on Latin America and is interested in issues such as human rights, gender issues, environment, and migration. When she is not working with Elke on grrrlzines.net, she puts out her own electronic music projects (www.myspace.com/hidhawk, http://umor-rex.com).
CFP: “Queer Utopias and Dystopias” ·15 January 2008, 19:55 by Dustin Goltz
2008 Queer Studies Graduate Symposium
University of California, Davis
May 17, 2008
Neoliberal practices of risk management and nationalist projects of
security and safety depend upon the construction of a dystopic future that must be prevented and the promise of a utopic future that might be created. Images of utopia and dystopia proliferate explicitly and implicitly within mainstream discourses around immigration and citizenship, marriage and family values,
and environmental degradation. Within this context, queer projects must work to diagnose the utopian longings and dystopic concerns connected to hetero- and homo-normative neoliberalisms and nationalisms. At the same time, however, queer scholarship has begun to ask what it might mean to risk engaging with the utopic as a theoretical, political, and aesthetic tool for social change. Recent debates around temporality in queer studies
have grappled with the value of the future and the utopian: while some maintain that discourses of futurity remain inextricably linked to heteronormative generationality and that notions of utopia remain irredeemably tainted by colonialist and
imperialist histories, others insist upon the potential for queer
reworkings of futurity and utopia to disrupt dominant narratives. This symposium wishes to inspire further discussion concerning queer utopias in particular and queer temporalities in general as well as to invite conversations around the interconnections
between the utopic and the dystopic within conservative and radical projects.
In what ways does the utopian function within academic, activist, and artistic projects, and how is the dystopian invoked within these
different contexts? What are the limits and possibilities of “the utopic” or “the dystopic” as theoretical and political frameworks? How do discussions of queer utopias and dystopias engage with other fields of scholarship, such as postcolonial, feminist, environmental, disability, and/or critical race studies?
What are the ethics of utopia? How are ideas about embodied difference deployed in utopic and dystopic narratives, either as something to be transformed, secured, or eliminated? Do queer reworkings and critiques of utopia/dystopia risk figuring “queer” as inherently resistant or revolutionary? In what ways do utopian longings and dystopian fears involve not only the invocation of imaginable futures but also the opening of the future to the not-yet-imaginable? How might queer utopias and dystopias involve not only temporal modalities but also spatial productions?
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
Relationships between utopia and dystopia
Relationships between nostalgia and utopia
Queer futures, pasts, presents
Competing utopias
Spatial and/or temporal utopias
Utopias and the archive
Suspension, pauses, gaps
Bodies and embodiments
Cultural productions, performances, and emerging public cultures
The utopia of a pre-AIDS past and/or a post-AIDS future
The risks and limits of utopia
“No future”
Loss, trauma, melancholia
Digital and virtual spaces
Literary and filmic representations
Affective utopias/utopic affect
Nationalist and/or imperialist utopias
Sociality, community and/or kinship
Sustainability
We invite scholarship from a broad range of disciplines, especially
interdisciplinary work in queer theory and transgender theory. We especially encourage work that critically engages mutually constitutive articulations of race, class,
sexuality, dis/ability, gender, citizenship, religion, and nationality. We also welcome papers that engage activism and community organizing.
Please send 250-500 word abstracts with a CV to
queersymposium2008@gmail.com by MARCH 14, 2008
Along with this abstract, please indicate if your presentation requires any AV
equipment.
Acceptances will be sent out by MARCH 21, 2008
Symposium Website: www.queersymposium.org
For more information, email Toby Beauchamp, Liz Montegary, and Cathy Hannabach at queersymposium2008@gmail.com.
Books and articles on Creative Industries, Cultural Policy and "Runaway" Production ·19 December 2007, 13:52 by Janice Kaye
Acheson, Keith and Christopher Maule. “Canada – Audiovisual Policies: Impact on Trade.” Report, Hamburg Institute of International Economics, 2003.
Caves, Richard E. Creative Industries: Contracts Between Art and Commerce. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Hadida, A. L. “Reputation Resources, Commitment and Performance of Film Projects in the USA and Canada (1988-1997).” U.K.: The Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, 2004. preliminary information only do not quote without permission.
Miller, Toby, et al, eds. Global Hollywood 2. London: British Film Institute, 2005.
Newman, David. “In the Service of the Empire: ‘Runaway’ Screen Production in Aoetearoa New Zealand and Canada, 1997-2006.” In Cross-Border Cultural Production: Economic Runaway or Globalization?
Scott, A. J. & N. E. Pope. “Hollywood, Vancouver, and the World: Employment Relocation and the Emergence of Satellite Production Centers in the Motion-Picture Industry” Environment and Planning A. Pion Publication, 2007. Volume 39 (6) 1364 – 1381
Vang, Jan and Cristina Chaminade, “Cultural Clusters, Global–Local Linkages and Spillovers: Theoretical and Empirical Insights from an Exploratory Study of Toronto’s Film Cluster.” Industry and Innovation, Vol. 14, No. 4, 401–420, September 2007.
Voon, Tania. “State Support for Audiovisual Products in the World Trade Organization: Protectionism or Cultural Policy?” International Journal of Cultural Property. USA: International Cultural Property Society, 2006.
Wasko, Janet and Mary Eriksen, eds. Cross-Border Cultural Production: Economic Runaway or Globalization? Youngstown, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2008.
Call Extended ·26 November 2007, 16:37 by Dustin Goltz
The deadline for submission of abstracts or proposals to the Digital Games area of the 2008 National Conference of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association has been extended to November 30, 2007. The conference will be held March 19-22 at the San Francisco Marriot, San Francisco. The full CFP is reprinted below.
Call for Papers: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference.
The combined Digital Games areas of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association invite proposals for papers and panels on digital games (video games, computer games, arcade games, etc.) and digital game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held March 19-22, 2008, at the San Francisco Marriott, San Francisco.
The organizers seek proposals covering all aspects of digital gaming, gaming culture and game studies, within or across disciplinary conversations, and all theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
—representation or performance of race, class, gender and sexuality in games
—gaming culture, game specific cultures, and multicultural and cross-cultural issues
—game development, design, authorship and other industry issues
—game advertising, reviews, packaging, promotion, integrated marketing and other commercial concerns
—political and legal entailments such as regulation, censorship, intellectual property
—ludology, textual criticism, media ecology, narratology, etc as paradigms for games studies
—player generated content in MUDs and MMORPGs, Mods, maps and machinima
—game genres, platforms, consoles, console wars and connections to other media
—serious games for education, business, healthcare, (military) training, etc
—space and place in games, play spaces, virtual/physical communities, mobile gaming and localization
—digital literacy, discourse practices, social norms and norming, the politics of play
– public discourse/controversy over violence, militarism, sex, criminality, racism, etc in games
So that there will be ample time for discussion, each individual paper presentation should be designed to last approximately fifteen minutes (there will be four presentations per session with time for Q&A). Complete panel submissions make take the form of debates, dialogs, roundtable discussions, thematic panels, (or other format,) and be designed to last approximately eighty minutes. Technology for use during presentations may be limited. More information about the conference can be found at http://www.pcaaca.org/
Please also note that presenters will be required to join either the Popular Culture Association or the American Culture Association prior to attending the conference, as well as pay a registration fee for the conference.
For individual paper submissions, your 250-word (maximum) abstract/proposal must be received by November 30, 2007. At the top of your proposal, please include the title of the paper/panel, your name (and the name of any co-presenters), affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address. This information will be used in the program and to mail your conference materials.
For complete panel submissions, please submit a 250-word panel abstract, as well as 100-word abstracts for each individual presentation. Be sure to include the proposed title of the panel, the organizer’s name, affiliation, mailing address, and email, and include this information for all panelists. Panel submissions must be received by November 30, 2007.
Please email all paper and panel proposals to digitalgames.pcaaca@gmail.com.
Questions and concerns can be addressed to one of the area chairs listed below.
PCA
Tony Avruch, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University avruch.pca@gmail.com
Katie Whitlock, Theatre Department, California State University, Chico klwhitlock@csuchico.edu
ACA
Gerald Voorhees, Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa gerald-voorhees@uiowa.edu
Joshua Call, Department of English, University of Nebraska – Lincoln jcall2@bigred.unl.edu
CFP ·31 October 2007, 13:17 by Natasha Patterson
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Historical Sociology – The History of Sexuality of Childhood and Youth
Guest Editors
R. Danielle Egan
Associate Professor and Chair
Gender Studies Program
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617
United States
Gail Hawkes
Senior Lecturer
School of Behavioral, Cognitive and Social Science
University of New England
Armidale, NSW 2351
Australia
Theme:
Few other topics manage to raise anxiety to the same extent in our western culture than our fear over a child?s proximity to the sexualrealm. Prevailing discourses on the sexual child manifest ambivalence at best, and at worst exemplify something approaching moral panic. As a result, the historical, cultural and ideological underpinnings of such discourses are often rendered invisible. We believe that a critical deconstruction of historical discourses, stories and material objects can illuminate the complex and often contradictory assumptions upon which such cultural narratives are built.
This special issue of Historical Sociology on the history of sexuality
of childhood and youth is intended to illuminate these historical
traces and their resonances. We recognize that this is a challenging empirical endeavor since the status of children, both historically and contemporarily, make it difficult, if not impossible, to know what children and youth were doing or thinking with regard to their sexuality. With this in mind, this issue seeks to offer insight into historical discourses produced about children and the material consequences of such adult intervention.
The editors are seeking papers which provide examples of the
historical origins of the problematization of the sexuality of youth
and childhood. We welcome work that draws on cross-disciplinary as well as comparative scholarship, and encourage authors who are exploring continuities between the past and present. Finally, since the majority of work done on sexuality and the young tends to focus on adolescence, the editors especially encourage contributions from scholars whose focus is on the pre-adolescent age group.
Submissions may include, but are not limited to:
Medical Intervention and Pathologization
Sex Education
Reform Movements
Advice Manuals or Parent Training
Religious Mandates
Legal Reform
Permissive or Sex Positive Discourses
Psychoanalytic Discourses
Developmental Psychology
Children?s/Adolescent Literature
Biological Discourses
The management of girls? sexuality
Queer Youth
Colonial/Neo Colonial Relations
Feminist Movements
Resistance
Cross cultural comparison
Abstracts are due no later than January 20, 2008
Accepted Papers will be due no later than June 2, 2008
Please email abstract submission to:
R. Danielle Egan degan@stlawu.edu
Any questions or quires should be addressed to either R. Danielle Egan (degan@stlawu.edu) or Gail Hawkes ghawkes@une.edu.au.
CFP ·29 October 2007, 13:49 by Natasha Patterson
Fantastic Voyages, Monstrous Dreams, Wondrous Visions: Cinematic Folklore and Fairy Tale Film
Invitation for contributors to a proposed collection of essays edited by Pauline Greenhill and Sidney Eve Matrix. Submissions are invited on all aspects of cinematic folklore and fairy tale film. Possible topics for essays may include (but are not limited to):
- Intertextuality of oral, literary, and filmic tales in cinematic adaptations and remakes
- Intersections between folklore, fantasy, and film theory
- Postmodern and psychoanalytic perspectives on cinematic folklore
- Metamorphosis, enchantment, monstrosity, and abjection in fairy tale film
- Transgender or transbiology in fairy tale film
- The rise in popularity of adult fairy tale films
- The convergence of science fiction and fairy tale fantasy film
- Ethnographic studies of fairy tale film viewers and audiences
- Fairy tale film narratives of Happily-ever-after, the American Dream, utopia, and other cultural discourses
- Discourses of Otherness, (post)coloniality, and Orientalism in fairy tale film
- Fairy tale film as cultural pedagogy, encoding issues of socialization, sexuality, gender, race, and class difference
- Analyses of particular works by fairy tale filmmakers from Georges M¨¦li¨¨s and Walt Disney to Tim Burton and Stephen Spielberg
- Global migration of cinematic folklore, cross-cultural translations and transformations
- Genre and generational shifts and remixes in fairy tale film from melodrama and romantic comedy, to science fiction, horror, noir, and action adventure
- Fairy tale motifs in the visual culture of film shorts, TV advertising and music video
- Historic and contemporary perspectives on innovative cinematography and special effects in animated and live-action fairy tale film, from puppetry to Pixar
- Political economy/capitalist relations of production and direction of cinematic folklore
- Relationship of “classic” 19thC fairy tale illustration
(from Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, et al.) and the Disney animation image repertoire to the iconography of contemporary cinematic folklore
Final essays should range in length from 5,000 to 9,000 words. Previously published work, appropriately revised and/or updated, will be considered. Send 500-word proposals (or completed essays) and a brief c.v. electronically as email attachments to Sidney Eve Matrix (matrixs@queensu.ca) and Pauline Greenhill (p.greenhill@uwinnipeg.ca) by 1 January 2007.
About the Editors: Pauline Greenhill is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg. She is published in Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society (with Stephanie Kane), the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, the Journal of American Folklore, and several other international periodicals. Her most recent book is Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada (with Diane Tye, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997) and she has just completed a monograph entitled Uncivil Unrest: Discourses of Four Charivaris in Canada, 1881-1940. Sidney Eve Matrix is Assistant Professor of Film and Media at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario, where she teaches courses on popular culture, science fiction, and fairy tale film. She has published cultural studies essays in journals such as Animation, Storytelling, Topia, Canadian Children’s Literature, and Ethnologies. Her recent book is Cyberpop: Digital Lifestyles and Commodity Culture (Routledge, 2006).
Afterelton.com/Afterellen.com ·19 October 2007, 03:02 by Dustin Goltz
For anyone doing work in GLBTQ representation and hasn’t ever looked these over, afterelton.com and afterellen.com are very useful websites. Their archive is easy to search, with decent attention to trans and non-white representations.
Some recent articles of particular interest
History of Gay Teens on Television
Review of ‘For the Bible Tells me so
Interview with Daniel Karslake
Problematic History of Lesbians in Musical theater
Australia’s ‘Kick’ features a Middle Eastern Lesbian Character
Popular Music Studies: Problems, Disputes, Questions · 9 October 2007, 13:51 by Vasiliki Sirakouli
Call for Papers
Popular Music Studies: Problems, Disputes, Questions, University of Glasgow,
12-14 September 2008.The biennial conference of the UK and Ireland branch of IASPM will be hosted
by the Department of Music at the University of Glasgow between 12 and 14
September 2008.Conference Theme
The aim of this conference is to address the issues that have in recent
years excited most conversation and disagreement among IASPM members.
Papers are invited on three topics in particular.Music and National Identity
[When, if ever, can music usefully be described in national terms? (English
or Scottish folk? Welsh or Irish rock?) What are the problems of national
music policies? Should popular music studies reject the concept of the
nation entirely? Are concepts of ‘ethnic’ or ‘hybrid’ music any more valid?
How is the nation gendered within popular music?]Popular Music Theory
[Does popular music studies ‘lack theory’? What sort of theory do we need?
What are the most useful theoretical concepts in the field? Which the most
redundant? Has gender been under-theorised within Popular Music Studies?
What is or should be the relationship between academic/theoretical
approaches to popular music and vocational/practical approaches?]The Musical Experience
[What is a musical experience? How are people’s responses to music
determined? How/why do they change over time? How does gender impact on
the musical experience? What can we learn about musical subjectivity and
response from psychologists of music? Is popular music necessarily a
source of pleasure?]Proposals
Paper proposals are invited on these topics-and on any other issue of
popular music debate. Proposals will be welcomed from any perspective,
using any methodology and addressing any kind of music.Papers should last for 20 minutes and the conference organisers will be
asking chairs to keep to this limit.Guest Speakers
Guest speakers at the conference will include Professor Simon Frith
(University of Edinburgh) and Professor Allan Moore (University of Surrey)
in debate, and Bill Drummond (formerly of the KLF). In addition John
Williamson (manager of Belle and Sebastian) will present a discussion of the
Glasgow music scene with local musicians.Social Events
The conference will feature a Civic Reception at Glasgow City Halls and a
Saturday evening social at a local venue.Other Information
Glasgow has one of the most vibrant music scenes in the UK, having in the
past few years produced acts such as Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand and The
Fratellis. It has a great range of venues including The Barrowland Ballroom,
King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, the Academy, the ABC, Barfly, the Garage, the
(Renfrew) Ferry, the Royal Concert Hall and the SECC. It also boasts a
highly diverse music scene with significant dance, country and western and
folk scenes. For more information see:
www.seeglasgow.com/seeglasgow/photo-gallery/cityofmusicThe conference will be located at the University of Glasgow which is located
in the West End of the City. This location is host to a range of excellent
restaurants, bars, pubs and venues all of which are in walking distance of
the venue.Organising Committee
A local Organising Committee has been established consisting of:
Martin Cloonan (University of Glasgow
Simon Frith (University of Edinburgh)
Raymond MacDonald (Glasgow Caledonian University) Mark Percival (Queen
Margaret University) John Williamson (University of Glasgow)Submitting Proposals
Proposals should include the name and contact details (email) of the
proposer, the tile of the proposal and an abstract of no more than 150
words. Please send proposals to Martin Cloonan – M.Cloonan@music.gla.ac.uk.
The deadline for proposals is 1 May 2008.Website
The conference website will be updated regularly. It can be found at:
www.music.gla.ac.uk/iaspm/Am I Black Enough for You? · 8 October 2007, 11:05 by Janice Kaye
Am I Black Enough for You? Popular Culture from the ‘Hood and Beyond
by Todd Boyd. indiana University Press, 1997.This book explores representations of race and class in mainstream America and how the popular culture industries deal with contemporary Black popular culture, including the evolution of rap music, gansta culture, blaxploitation and constructions of Black masculinity. 176 pages. ISBN 0253211050