Katie Rios

"This Is America"

Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape

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Produktbeschreibung

In "This is America," Katie Rios considers current American artists who build encoded gestures of resistance into their works. These gestures recur across images, live performances, and videos, becoming recognizable acts of resistance leveled at injustices based on a number of categories, including race, gender, class, religion, and politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781793619181
• ISBN-10: 1793619182
• Artikelnr.: 67206640

Autorenporträt

Katie Rios is associate professor of music history at the Townsend School of Music at Mercer University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: "We're Drowning in Our Own Stories": Laurie Anderson's Call to
Artists and Her Performance Art as a Commentary on Current American
Democracy
Chapter 2: "At the Intersection' of Racism and Sexism": The Encoded
Resistance and Social Activism of Beyoncé, Rhiannon Giddens, and Janelle
Monáe
Chapter 3: "We the People"? Hip Hop As Resistance in the Trump Era
Chapter 4: '"Look Around", "History Is Happening": Heterogenous Topics in
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton