AFAM 1650 Chapter Notes - Chapter ?: Deconstruction, Carnivalesque
6 Oct 2016
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How does hall characterize the current (1992) moment. Us being world power, global cultural and circulation. Shift from europe to us, western europe had no ethnicity. And, in one sense, popular culture always has its base in the experiences, the pleasures, the memories, the traditions of the people. It has connections with local hopes and local aspirations, local tragedies . Carnivalesque-mapping of high and low culture in 4 domains: psychic form, human body, space, social order. Style, sugar coating (109) exclusion community binding. And that is the most difficult thing about this proliferation of the field of identities and antagonisms: they are often dislocating in relation to one another. (113) It is an arena that is profoundly mythic (113) Top exclude down and prestige, yet dependent on blacks. Differences within black ( path of strangers blacks from different states saw each other differently. Cannot be won, this end is also a beginning ; power balance shift-hegemony.
