Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415169899 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 384 str.

Alison Donnell

Opis

This A-Z Companion is the first in-depth reference to Black British cultural production from 1970 to the present. Coverage encompasses writing, music, visual and plastic arts, performance works, film and cinema, fashion and design, and intellectual life.
With entries on distinguished practitioners, key intellectuals, seminal organizations and concepts, popular cultural forms and local activities, the Companion outlines some of the highly charged debates concerning the politics of identity and representation within the black British cultural arena.
Entries include: Asian Dub Foundation * Buddha of Suburbia * Cornershop * Goldie * Goodness Gracious Me * LTJ Bukem * Massive Attack * Mel B * Rifat Ozbek * Finlay Quaye * The Booker Prize * Tricky * Youth Culture * A Guy Called Gerald * Black Londoners * Black Arts Movement * Black British * Naomi Campbell * Caribbean Artists Movement * Neneh Cherry * Children's Publishing * Collapsed Lung * Credit to the Nation * Eternal * Jazzie B * Multicultural TV * Publishing * Soul II Soul * and many more.

Spis treści

Entries include: L^Oswald Boateng
David A. Bailey
Bhangra
Naomi Campbell
Channel 4
Feminism
Live Art
Jungle
Hanif Kureishi
Photography
Notting Hill Carnival
SuAndi
The Voice
Windrush
Youth culture

O autorze

Alison Donnell is a senior lecturer in postcolonial literatures at Nottingham Trent University. She is co-editor of The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature(1996) and joint editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.