Black Ephemera av Mark Anthony Neal

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<p><b><i>PROSE Award- Music and Performing Arts Category Winner</i><br/>A </b><b>framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era</b><br/>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 from the 1920s, are merely a quick YouTube search away has transformed how scholars teach and research Black performance.<br/>While <i>Black Ephemera</i> 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. Using music and sound as its primary texts, <i>Black Ephemera</i> argues that the cultural DNA of Black America has become obscured in the transformation from analog to digital. Through a cross-reading of the relationship