Black ephemera : the crisis and challenge of the musical archive / Mark Anthony Neal.

"Black Ephemera explores the crisis and the challenge of the Black Musical archive in a moment when Black American culture has become a global import, yet the cultural DNA of that culture is becoming obscured in the transformation from analog to digital"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Neal, Mark Anthony (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	African Americans > Music > History and criticism. Popular music > United States > History and criticism. Sound recording industry > United States. African Americans > Archival resources. African Americans > Music. Popular music. Sound recording industry. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:	225 pages ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction : The crisis and the challenge of the archive
Love in the Stax : Death, loss and resurrection in Post-King Memphis
"I got the blues of a fallen teardrop" : Erasure, trauma and a sonic archive of Black women
"Promise that you will [tweet] about me" : Black death in the digital era
'I'll be a bridge" : Black inferiority, Black invention and the American Songbook
Decamping Wakanda : The archive as maroon
Coda : Writing and living with Black ephemera.