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Hoo-doo cowboys and bronze buckaroos : conceptions of the African American West, Michael K. Johnson

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"Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or underrepresented in studies focused only on traditional literary material. The book engages heretofore unexamined writing by Rose Gordon, who wrote for local Montana newspapers rather than for a national audience; memoirs and letters of musicians, performers, and singers (such as W. C. Handy and Taylor Gordon), who lived in or wrote about touring the American West; the novels and films of Oscar Micheaux; black-cast westerns starring Herb Jeffries; largely unappreciated and unexamined episodes from the "golden age of western television" that feature African American actors; film and television westerns that use science fiction settings to imagine a "postracial" or "postsoul" frontier; Percival Everett's fiction addressing contemporary black western experience; and movies as recent as Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.Despite recent interest in the history of the African American West, we know very little about how the African American past in the West has been depicted in a full range of imaginative forms. Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos advances our discovery of how the African American West has been experienced, imagined, portrayed, and performed"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
viii, 287 pages
Contents
  • Performing (in) the African American West
  • "Try to refrain from that desire"
  • "This strange white world"
  • Cowboys, cooks and comics
  • Oscar Micheaux, The Exile, and Black Western Race film
  • Sammy Davis, Jr., Woody Strode, and the black westerner of the civil rights era
  • Looking at the big picture
  • The post-soul cowboy on the science fiction frontier
  • Conclusion: the D is silent
Isbn
9781617039287
Instance
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Hoo-doo cowboys and bronze buckaroos : conceptions of the African American West
Title
Hoo-doo cowboys and bronze buckaroos
Title remainder
conceptions of the African American West
Statement of responsibility
Michael K. Johnson
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Language
eng
Summary
"Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or underrepresented in studies focused only on traditional literary material. The book engages heretofore unexamined writing by Rose Gordon, who wrote for local Montana newspapers rather than for a national audience; memoirs and letters of musicians, performers, and singers (such as W. C. Handy and Taylor Gordon), who lived in or wrote about touring the American West; the novels and films of Oscar Micheaux; black-cast westerns starring Herb Jeffries; largely unappreciated and unexamined episodes from the "golden age of western television" that feature African American actors; film and television westerns that use science fiction settings to imagine a "postracial" or "postsoul" frontier; Percival Everett's fiction addressing contemporary black western experience; and movies as recent as Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.Despite recent interest in the history of the African American West, we know very little about how the African American past in the West has been depicted in a full range of imaginative forms. Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos advances our discovery of how the African American West has been experienced, imagined, portrayed, and performed"--
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1963-
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Johnson, Michael K.
Dewey number
810.9/896073
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Index
index present
LC call number
PS153.N5
LC item number
J645 2014
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Margaret Walker series in African American studies
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  • American literature
  • American literature
  • African Americans in popular culture
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • Frontier and pioneer life in literature
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
  • PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • American literature
  • American literature
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Literature
  • Popular culture
  • United States, West
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Hoo-doo cowboys and bronze buckaroos : conceptions of the African American West, Michael K. Johnson
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-269) and index
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volume
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Content category
text
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Contents
Performing (in) the African American West -- "Try to refrain from that desire" -- "This strange white world" -- Cowboys, cooks and comics -- Oscar Micheaux, The Exile, and Black Western Race film -- Sammy Davis, Jr., Woody Strode, and the black westerner of the civil rights era -- Looking at the big picture -- The post-soul cowboy on the science fiction frontier -- Conclusion: the D is silent
Control code
837957739
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
viii, 287 pages
Isbn
9781617039287
Isbn Type
(hbk.)
Lccn
2013025422
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
System control number
(OCoLC)837957739
Label
Hoo-doo cowboys and bronze buckaroos : conceptions of the African American West, Michael K. Johnson
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-269) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
Performing (in) the African American West -- "Try to refrain from that desire" -- "This strange white world" -- Cowboys, cooks and comics -- Oscar Micheaux, The Exile, and Black Western Race film -- Sammy Davis, Jr., Woody Strode, and the black westerner of the civil rights era -- Looking at the big picture -- The post-soul cowboy on the science fiction frontier -- Conclusion: the D is silent
Control code
837957739
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
viii, 287 pages
Isbn
9781617039287
Isbn Type
(hbk.)
Lccn
2013025422
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
System control number
(OCoLC)837957739

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