jan 1, 1920 - Negus - Identities
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explores perspectives on the nature of individual and group identities
"crisis of identity" --> essentialism vs. performativity (is identity fixed or fluid, innate or actively constructed)
-->(intersectionality) also refers to the fragmentation of identity in postmodernity i.e. a person may fit into more than one social category
common viewpoints on the relation of identity to "black and white" music
- Firth - attempts to define "essence of black music"
- Tagg - argue NO intrinsic styles essential to either
- Gilroy - "blank and white" = counterproductive categories but can be used in a non-essentialist way by including 1) diaspora of black Atlantic world 2) the changing same
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Popular Music After 1945
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