Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive Neal Mark Anthony
Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive Neal Mark Anthony A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital eraIn an era of Big Data and…
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Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive Neal Mark Anthony
A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital eraIn an era of Big Data and algorithms, our easy access to the archive of contemporary and historical Blackness is unprecedented. Using music and sound as its primary texts, Black Ephemera argues that the cultural DNA of Black America has become obscured in the transformation from analog to digital. Through a That iterations of Black visual art, such as Bert Williams's 1916 silent film short "A Natural Born Gambler" or the performances of Josephine Baker from the 1920s, are merely a quick YouTube search away has transformed how scholars teach and research Black performance.While Black Ephemera celebrates this new access, it also questions the crisis and the challenge of the Black musical archive in a moment when Black American culture has become a global export.
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