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Subject(s)

• African diaspora [Browse]
• Art and popular culture [Browse]
• Mass media and culture—Caribbean Area [Browse]
• Mass media and culture—United States [Browse]
• Photography—Social aspects—United States [Browse]

Summary note

In Jamaican dancehalls competition for the video camera's light is stiff, so much so that dancers sometimes bleach their skin to enhance their visibility. In the Bahamas, tuxedoed students roll into prom in tricked-out sedans, staging grand red-carpet entrances that are designed to ensure they are seen being photographed. Throughout the United States and Jamaica friends pose in front of hand-painted backgrounds of Tupac, flashy cars, or brand-name products popularized in hip-hop culture in countless makeshift roadside photography studios. And visual artists such as Kehinde Wiley remix the.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-334) and index.

Source of description

Online resource; title from e-book title screen (ProQuest ebrary platform, viewed August 10, 2016).

ISBN

• 0822375982 ((electronic bk.))
• 9780822375982 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

899320644

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