Black radio - Black resistance the life & times of The Tom Joyner Morning Show
Introduction: the best-kept secret in America -- Hidden in plain sight: soul music, radio history, and the rise of the TJMS -- Here's to all my baby mamas: family values and TJMS gender/sexuality politics -- Partyin with a purpose: TJMS race, class, and age politics and aesthetics -- Activism,...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2019
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: the best-kept secret in America -- Hidden in plain sight: soul music, radio history, and the rise of the TJMS -- Here's to all my baby mamas: family values and TJMS gender/sexuality politics -- Partyin with a purpose: TJMS race, class, and age politics and aesthetics -- Activism, disasters, elections: black radio at its best -- Not "radio nowhere": racist criminal justice and TJMS activism -- The Trumpocalypse and its afterlife -- Epilogue: "electronic sheets" and a new progressive counterpublic Every weekday, the wildly popular Tom Joyner Morning show reaches more than eight million radio listeners. Author Micaela di Leonardo dives deep into the show's quarter-century run in the contexts of American/African American media histories. From its Clinton-era rise, its responses to key events - 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, President Obama, police killings of unarmed black Americans and the rise of Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and Donald Trump's ascendancy - have broadcast the varied, defiant, often musical, and darkly comic voices of its anchors, guests, and audience. Thus we tune in to an alternative understanding of the shifting black public sphere in the digital age. Like the show itself, Black Radio/Black Resistance is politically progressive, music-drenched, and blisteringly funny |
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| Beschreibung: | xiv, 332 Seiten Illustrationen, Portraits 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780190870188 978-0-19-087018-8 0190870184 0-19-087018-4 9780190870195 0190870192 |