Energy never dies : Afro-optimism and creativity in Chicago /

"From Afro Sheen to Theaster Gates and from Soul Train to Chance the Rapper, Black Chicago draws sustenance from a culture rooted in self-determination, aspiration, and hustle. In Energy Never Dies, Ayana Contreras embarks on a journey to share the implausible success stories and breathtaking a...

وصف كامل

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Contreras, Ayana, 1981- (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Urbana : University of Illinois Press [2021]
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctv23r3fvq
جدول المحتويات:
  • Preface: The verge of spring : optimism in black Chicago
  • On Stony Island Avenue : boulevard of black culture
  • Sort of a dream : the southern sensibility and flow of Chicago's West Side
  • Found : grooves ghostly white
  • Stax Fax : black Christmas begat a black love procession
  • All this talk about freedom : art, soul and the Blackstone Rangers
  • It's a Tom Tom, part 1 : tamales, barbecue, and 45s
  • It's a Tom Tom, part 2 : iron sharpening iron
  • Visions of soul : Afro Sheen, Soul Train, and black Chicago's close-up
  • Brand-new you : makeover, mind over
  • The coiling feedback loop of time.