Goin' Viral
eBook - ePub

Goin' Viral

Uncontrollable Black Performance

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Goin' Viral

Uncontrollable Black Performance

About this book

Black virality refers to the spread of Black performance that becomes uncontrollable because of its rapid and ubiquitous circulation through popular media. Gabriel A. Peoples examines Black people and representations of Black people that have gone viral from the eighteenth century to today.

Peoples's analysis ranges from abolitionist and proslavery visual culture to Do the Right Thing to "Bed Intruder Song" and the cellphone video of Derrion Albert's murder. After identifying these moments, he considers how performances go viral in Black ways. He also thinks through the ways Black virality circulates ideas that materially affect Black life. As he shows, an interacting person's vulnerability to racialized gender and racialized sexuality knowledge inspires how they spread a performance. Non-iconic elements of viral moments reveal hard-to-find nuances of Black life while the artists and others represented in viral moments promote both collective and individual liberation by harnessing their visibility and audibility.

Rigorous and expansive, Goin' Viral uses Black virality as a new way to understand and frame Black performances.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 People Hear What They See: Branding Abolition and the Black Virality of Kneeling
  10. 2 I Can’t Live without My Radio: Black Viralities of Masculinity and Sound in Do the Right Thing
  11. 3 Woman Wakes Up to Find Intruder in Her Bed: A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Rape Attempt Gone Viral
  12. 4 Suggestions: “Bed Intruder Song!!! (Now on iTunes) … 157M views”; “Annoying Orange – Kitchen Intruder (Bed Intruder Spoof) with AutoTune Remix! … 15M views”; “Sweet Brown – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That (Autotune Remix) … 71M views”; “Dead Giveaway! … 37M views”; or, The Travel of The Ghetto Witness
  13. Coda: They Killing Him, Look: The Viral Afterlife of a Justice at Odds with a Liberation
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Back Cover