Man Who Adores the Negro

Man Who Adores the Negro

EnglishPaperback / softback
Mullen, Patrick B
University of Illinois Press
EAN: 9780252074868
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Drawing on over thirty-five years of fieldwork, Patrick B. Mullen considers how African American cultural representations in folklore relate to racial dynamics in the United States. Providing insight into white folklorists\u2019 relationships with black consultants, The Man Who Adores the Negro describes the personal experiences of both fieldworkers and ethnographic subjects. Mullen explores how folklorists such as John Lomax, Newbell Niles Puckett, Alan Lomax, and Roger Abrahams have been implicated in creating the popular concept of African Americans as folk and how this depiction has created notions of blackness and whiteness. Illuminating central aspects of African American cultural history, the author discusses a wide range of folklore that includes work songs, hymns, voodoo rituals, animal tales, jokes, toasts, and children's games and rhymes. In relating folkloric research to white mimicry of black style in such expressions as blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop culture, Mullen contends that both folk performers and folklorists participate in ongoing cultural change when they mix received values and attitudes in producing new interpretations.
EAN 9780252074868
ISBN 0252074866
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Publication date March 18, 2008
Pages 224
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 152 x 13
Country United States
Readership Undergraduate
Authors Mullen, Patrick B