Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.2979/tra.2023.a903645
Amy Abugo Ongiri
Damaso Perez Prado, who would later be internationally dubbed the “King of the Mambo” after the success of his music in the US market, was both diminutive and dark, an unlikely symbol for sex and sensuality in the postwar US culture that created the very blonde Doris Day and very tall Rock Hudson (6’5”) as cultural icons. When he shot to stardom in 1955 with his version of the song “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” occupying the number one spot on the music charts for ten straight weeks—it seemed unprecedented. However, the transnational dance and music craze that would be called “Mambomania” was the culmination of years of African American and Afro-Caribbean cultural exchange, which drew on the groups’ shared Africanity but was also fraught with racial politics. Charles Mingus’s expulsion from the Duke Ellington band after a physical altercation with Ellington’s longtime arranger, Juan Tizol, for example, is the stuff of jazz legend. And also of much conflicting opinion as to the accuracy of Mingus’s account. In his autobiography Beneath the Underdog: His World Composed By Mingus, Mingus writes:
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.2979/transition.134.1.12
Jess Silfa
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.2979/tra.2023.a903647
Bhakti Shringarpure, Amil Shivji, Lula Ali Ismail
{"title":"Love, Feminism, and Freedom on the Indian Ocean: Lula Ali Ismail and Amil Shivji on East Africa’s Film Renaissance","authors":"Bhakti Shringarpure, Amil Shivji, Lula Ali Ismail","doi":"10.2979/tra.2023.a903647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/tra.2023.a903647","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44761,"journal":{"name":"Transition","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135495991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.2979/tra.2023.a903633
Taylor Byas
{"title":"Re-narrativization, and: From the Photo Album","authors":"Taylor Byas","doi":"10.2979/tra.2023.a903633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/tra.2023.a903633","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44761,"journal":{"name":"Transition","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135495977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.2979/tra.2023.a903643
Marlin M. Jenkins
{"title":"pushing a broken cart through the unplowed target parking lot","authors":"Marlin M. Jenkins","doi":"10.2979/tra.2023.a903643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/tra.2023.a903643","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44761,"journal":{"name":"Transition","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135495984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.2979/transition.134.1.04
Silyane Larcher
{"title":"The Colonial Chains of Neo-Liberalism: How Marine Le Pen Was Able to Win the Elections in the French Caribbean","authors":"Silyane Larcher","doi":"10.2979/transition.134.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/transition.134.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44761,"journal":{"name":"Transition","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136208923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.2979/transition.134.1.16
Abdulkareem Abdulkareem
{"title":"The Threshold: Photograph, and: Somewhere Between the Prime & the Obsolete","authors":"Abdulkareem Abdulkareem","doi":"10.2979/transition.134.1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/transition.134.1.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44761,"journal":{"name":"Transition","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136208924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.2979/transition.134.1.13
Amy Abugo Ongiri
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