Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality

by Robert J Patterson and Robert J. Patterson

Book Overview

Despite rhythm and blues culture's undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial, and economic desires within and for African American communities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978803583
• ISBN13: 9781978803589
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher