dancing on my own

Dancing Down the Barricades Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era【電子書籍】 Matthew Frye JacobsonDancing on My Own Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy【電子書籍】 Simon Wu
 

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  • <p><strong>A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr.</strong></p> <p>Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show businessーfrom vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TVー<em>Dancing Down the Barricades</em> examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: Did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it?</p> <p>Davis was at once a pioneering, barrier-busting, anti?Jim Crow activist and someone who was widely associated with accommodationism and wannabe whiteness. Historian Matthew Frye Jacobson attends to both threads, analyzing how industry norms, productions, scripts, roles, and audience expectations and responses were all framed by race agains...
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  • <p><strong>“Simon Wu manages to be both a shrewd critic and enthused aspirant of what passes for today’s cultural capital. . . . with a disarming lack of cynicism that is both keen and refreshing.”</strong> ?<strong>Cathy Park Hong</strong></p> <p><strong>"A genius melding of art criticism, autobiography, personal essay, and travel writing. . . . Wu</strong>ー<strong>an artist, curator, and writer</strong>ー<strong>layers experiences like translucent curtains through which we see the landscape of a past in the present making its future."</strong> ?<strong>Claudia Rankine</strong></p> <p><strong>An expansive and deeply personal essay collection which explores the aesthetics of class aspiration, the complications of creating art and fashion, and the limits of identity politics.</strong></p> <p>In Robyn’s 2010 track <em>Dancing on My Own</em>, the Swedish pop-singer chronicles a night on the dance floor in the shadow of a former lover. She ...
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