Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive

by Mark Anthony Neal

Book Overview

PROSE Award- Music and Performing Arts Category Winner

A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era

In an era of Big Data and algorithms, our easy access to the archive of contemporary and historical Blackness is unprecedented. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479806900
• ISBN13: 9781479806904
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"