Description
Product ID: | 9781478010876 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study |
Title: | How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind |
Subtitle: | Madness and Black Radical Creativity |
Authors: | Author: La Marr Jurelle Bruce |
Page Count: | 360 |
Subjects: | Popular music, Jazz, Literature: history and criticism, Social and cultural history, Ethnic studies, Literature: history & criticism, Social & cultural history, Ethnic studies |
Description: | Select Guide Rating La Marr Jurelle Bruce ponders the presence of “madness” in black literature, music, and performance since the early twentieth century, showing how artist ranging from Kendrick Lamar and Lauryn Hill to Nina Simone and Dave Chappelle activate madness as content, form, aesthetic, strategy, philosophy, and energy in an enduring black radical tradition. |
Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-06-18 |