Melinda A. Mills

Racial Mixture and Musical Mash-ups in the Life and Art of Bruno Mars

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how Bruno Mars draws on his mixed cultural, ethnic, and racial background in his music and performance to create "new music nostalgia." The complexity of the celebrity's racial identity informs his performative politics of blackness and forms the basis for a reconceptualization of race and a reimagining of the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781793619822
• ISBN-10: 1793619824
• Artikelnr.: 60094132

Autorenporträt

Melinda A. Mills is associate professor of women's and gender studies, sociology, and anthropology at Castleton University in Vermont.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Introducing Bruno Mars
Chapter 1: New Music Nostalgia, Or, Is What's Old New Again?
Chapter 2: Blurred Boundaries, or Reading Between the Lines
Chapter 3: The Performative Politics of Blackness
Chapter 4: The Sonic Politics of Pleasure, Or Love and Joy in a Time of
Trauma and Tragedy
Chapter 5: (Re)fashioning Race and Music