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BLACK EPHEMERA: THE CRISIS AND CHALLENGE OF THE MUSICAL ARCHIVE by Mark Anthony Neal

Name: BLACK EPHEMERA: THE CRISIS AND CHALLENGE OF THE MUSICAL ARCHIVE by Mark Anthony Neal
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154 x 230mm, 232 pages, Black white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2022 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 from the 1920s, are merely a quick YouTube search away has transformed how scholars teach and research Black performance. While Black Ephemera celebrates this

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