Inner City Blues

• Authors: Alessandro Buffa
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this article, I would like to propose an alternative and long view of “1968” which is grounded in black liberation movements, Afrodiasporic cultures, neighborhood-based organizations and sustained and propagated by music and sound. Venturing into this alternative history, I consider the Bronx, Harlem, and Naples, Italy as networks of resistance and nodal junctures for the transmission of Afrodiasporic cultures of opposition. Connecting the mutual influence of global social movements, music and neighborhood-based organizations, my article is also an invitation to start thinking about history through acoustic/musical resonances.

Keywords

EN

Activism in the South Bronx; inter-ethnic alliances; Black liberation movements; Afrodiasporic and creolized cultures; music and ethno-chamber effect; Harlem; Naples; Mediterranean

• Publisher: University of Silesia Press
• Journal: Review of International American Studies
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 129-140

Dates

published

2019-12-23

Contributors

author

Alessandro Buffa

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/rias.7369