Micaela Di Leonardo

Black Radio/Black Resistance

The Life & Times of the Tom Joyner Morning Show

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Produktbeschreibung

Black Radio/Black Resistance tells the story of the decades-old, wildly popular Tom Joyner Morning Show, a drive-time syndicated and streaming show with progressive politics, wicked humor, and deeply satisfying adult soul music. As lively and funny as the show itself, Black Radio/Black Resistance illuminates American working and middle-class black lives and politics over the last quarter-century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190870188
• ISBN-10: 0190870184
• Artikelnr.: 54797463

Autorenporträt

Micaela di Leonardo is Professor of Anthropology, African American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University. She has published five books and several dozen articles, and has worked as an anti-racist and feminist writer and activist since the 1970s. And she is an avid soul music fan.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter One
* Introduction: The Best-Kept Secret in America
* Chapter Two
* Hidden in Plain Sight: Soul Music, Radio History, and the Rise of the
TJMS
* Chapter Three
* Here's to All My Baby Mamas: Family Values and TJMS Gender/Sexuality
Politics
* Chapter Four
* Partyin' with a Purpose: TJMS Race, Class, and Age Politics and
Aesthetics
* Chapter Five
* Activism, Disasters, Elections: Black Radio at its Best
* Chapter Six
* Not "Radio Nowhere:" Racist Criminal Justice and TJMS Activism
* Chapter Seven
* The Trumpocalypse and its Afterlife
* Epilogue
* "Electronic Sheets" and a New Progressive Counterpublic