Shana L Redmond
Biographic Data
| ID | 241426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shana L Redmond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shana L |
| FAMILY NAME | Redmond |
| SIGNATURE | REDMOND S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
The Dark Prelude
The Dark Prelude Shana L. Redmond (bio) For Robeson Cade "Dark Prelude": A Preliminary Playlist (In Order of Appearance) Leon Bridges, "Sweeter" (Gold-Diggers Sound, Columbia Records, 2021). Dawn featuring Tony Orlando, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" (Tuneweaving, Arista Records, 1973). Roberta Flack, "Killing Me Softly with His Song" (Killing Me Softly, Atlantic Records, 1973). The Five Satins, "In the Still of the Nite" ("In the S…
Everything Man
enforced quietude, motivating creation, narrative, and possibility.Neruda organizes recurrent scenes of Robeson as and in relation to earth, fire, water, and air, stimulating our reception of Robeson as organic and fundamental.He is portrayed as "the song of germinating earth, the river and the movement of nature," "the potent voice of the water over the fire," and the "voice of the earth" whose "river of a heart was deeper, was wider than the si…
Of Treads and Thunder
For Lorraine Hansberry insurgency was a necessity,an essence of the artist.A necessity inseparable from her blackness,her womanhood, her humanism.1There he was, Paul Robeson. His photo was install
Bandung Holograms
Black vocal music is a dynamic alchemy of performance, technology, and strategy deployed in political scenes throughout the diaspora. In this essay, Paul Robeson is situated within the immanent spread of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century (in Africa, in particular) as a way to investigate and theorize acts of vocal transport as a type of hologram that places black bodies in circulation with(in) social movement and strategy collectives be…
Critical Ethnic Studies
The multicultural nation and the violence of liberal rights -- As though it were our own?: against a politics of identification / Shana L. Redmond -- Juan Crow: progressive mutations of the Black-White binary / John D. Marquez -- Can the line move? Antiblackness and a diasporic logic of forced social epidermalization / Joao H. Costa Vargas -- (Re)producing the nation: treaty rights, gay marriage, and the settler state / Lindsey Schneider -- Hatef…
Paul Robeson
Journal Article Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art Get access Lindsey R. Swindall. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. x, 201 pp. $38.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 307–308, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau294 Published: 01 June 2014
Song Uncaged
Following in the wave of scholarship on imprisoned intellectuals and activists, this brief examination considers the sound produced by the incarcerated Marcus Garvey who used his song “Keep Cool” as a method of escape and political possibility through musical composition. Richard Iton's work on visibility and the problematics of the Black citizen-subject provides a compelling series of theorizations and queries in my thinking on how incarcerated …
Detroit's idle
Black music is an ideo-aesthetic practice that highlights the making of myriad identity positions, including race, citizenship and class. Under globalisation and the mass commodification of US life, however, corporations have co-opted Black musics for various ends to manufacture alternative desires and realities to those of the musicians themselves, whose visions are better understood as 'freedom dreams'.1 This article examines one such abuse, in…
Montgomery the Mentor, Montgomery the Activist
I'd like to begin with a disclosure: I was not an official student of David Montgomery. By “official,” I mean to signal the parochial ways in which institutions recognize and quantify mentorship. I came to Yale University too late to have the opportunity to work with him in any formal way; I entered the combined doctoral program in African American studies and American studies there in the fall of 2002, long after David had retired. While this fa…
Citizens of sound
The development of large-scale black protest organizations in the early decades of the twentieth century precipitated an unparalleled amount of communication and exchange between African descended populations. This paper argues the centrality of black organization anthems to the enterprise of black diaspora formation and solidarity. Through the composition and ritualization of their anthems, black organizations defined and announced an agenda for…
In Search of the Black Fantastic
Everything Man
enforced quietude, motivating creation, narrative, and possibility.Neruda organizes recurrent scenes of Robeson as and in relation to earth, fire, water, and air, stimulating our reception of Robeson as organic and fundamental.He is portrayed as "the song of germinating earth, the river and the movement of nature," "the potent voice of the water over the fire," and the "voice of the earth" whose "river of a heart was deeper, was wider than the si…
In Search of the Black Fantastic
Paul Robeson
Journal Article Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art Get access Lindsey R. Swindall. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. x, 201 pp. $38.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 307–308, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau294 Published: 01 June 2014
Detroit's idle
Black music is an ideo-aesthetic practice that highlights the making of myriad identity positions, including race, citizenship and class. Under globalisation and the mass commodification of US life, however, corporations have co-opted Black musics for various ends to manufacture alternative desires and realities to those of the musicians themselves, whose visions are better understood as 'freedom dreams'.1 This article examines one such abuse, in…
In Search of the Black Fantastic
Citizens of sound
The development of large-scale black protest organizations in the early decades of the twentieth century precipitated an unparalleled amount of communication and exchange between African descended populations. This paper argues the centrality of black organization anthems to the enterprise of black diaspora formation and solidarity. Through the composition and ritualization of their anthems, black organizations defined and announced an agenda for…
Montgomery the Mentor, Montgomery the Activist
I'd like to begin with a disclosure: I was not an official student of David Montgomery. By “official,” I mean to signal the parochial ways in which institutions recognize and quantify mentorship. I came to Yale University too late to have the opportunity to work with him in any formal way; I entered the combined doctoral program in African American studies and American studies there in the fall of 2002, long after David had retired. While this fa…
Detroit's idle
Black music is an ideo-aesthetic practice that highlights the making of myriad identity positions, including race, citizenship and class. Under globalisation and the mass commodification of US life, however, corporations have co-opted Black musics for various ends to manufacture alternative desires and realities to those of the musicians themselves, whose visions are better understood as 'freedom dreams'.1 This article examines one such abuse, in…
Paul Robeson
Journal Article Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art Get access Lindsey R. Swindall. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. x, 201 pp. $38.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 307–308, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau294 Published: 01 June 2014
Song Uncaged
Following in the wave of scholarship on imprisoned intellectuals and activists, this brief examination considers the sound produced by the incarcerated Marcus Garvey who used his song “Keep Cool” as a method of escape and political possibility through musical composition. Richard Iton's work on visibility and the problematics of the Black citizen-subject provides a compelling series of theorizations and queries in my thinking on how incarcerated …
Critical Ethnic Studies
The multicultural nation and the violence of liberal rights -- As though it were our own?: against a politics of identification / Shana L. Redmond -- Juan Crow: progressive mutations of the Black-White binary / John D. Marquez -- Can the line move? Antiblackness and a diasporic logic of forced social epidermalization / Joao H. Costa Vargas -- (Re)producing the nation: treaty rights, gay marriage, and the settler state / Lindsey Schneider -- Hatef…
Bandung Holograms
Black vocal music is a dynamic alchemy of performance, technology, and strategy deployed in political scenes throughout the diaspora. In this essay, Paul Robeson is situated within the immanent spread of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century (in Africa, in particular) as a way to investigate and theorize acts of vocal transport as a type of hologram that places black bodies in circulation with(in) social movement and strategy collectives be…
Of Treads and Thunder
For Lorraine Hansberry insurgency was a necessity,an essence of the artist.A necessity inseparable from her blackness,her womanhood, her humanism.1There he was, Paul Robeson. His photo was install
Everything Man
enforced quietude, motivating creation, narrative, and possibility.Neruda organizes recurrent scenes of Robeson as and in relation to earth, fire, water, and air, stimulating our reception of Robeson as organic and fundamental.He is portrayed as "the song of germinating earth, the river and the movement of nature," "the potent voice of the water over the fire," and the "voice of the earth" whose "river of a heart was deeper, was wider than the si…
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
The Dark Prelude
The Dark Prelude Shana L. Redmond (bio) For Robeson Cade "Dark Prelude": A Preliminary Playlist (In Order of Appearance) Leon Bridges, "Sweeter" (Gold-Diggers Sound, Columbia Records, 2021). Dawn featuring Tony Orlando, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" (Tuneweaving, Arista Records, 1973). Roberta Flack, "Killing Me Softly with His Song" (Killing Me Softly, Atlantic Records, 1973). The Five Satins, "In the Still of the Nite" ("In the S…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · History (5 works) · Music History and Culture (5 works) · Politics (5 works)