Digital Griots

by Banks, Adam J.

• ISBN13: 9780809330201
• ISBN10: 0809330202
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-11
• Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr

Summary

Scholar Adam J. Banks offers a mixtape of African American digital rhetoric in this innovative study. Presenting the DJ as a quintessential example of the digital griot-a high-tech storyteller-this book shows how African American storytelling traditions and their digital manifestations can help scholars and teachers shape composition studies, thoroughly linking oral, print, and digital production in ways that centralize African American discursive practices as part of a multicultural set of ideas and pedagogical commitments.

Author Biography

Adam J. Banks, an associate professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital media at the University of Kentucky, is the author of Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Scratch: Two Turntables and a Storytelling Tradition	p. 1
Groove: Synchronizing African American Rhetoric and Multimedia Writing through the Digital Griot	p. 10
Shoutout: digNubia	p. 33
Mix: Roles, Relationships, and Rhetorical Strategies in Community Engagement	p. 35
Shoutout: The Hip Hop Archive	p. 84
Remix: Afrofuturistic Roadmaps-Rememory Remixed for a Digital Age	p. 86
Shoutout: Cyber-Church	p. 110
Mixtape: Black Theology's Mixtape Movement at Forty	p. 111
SupaShouts: Diva Delight and Rootwork the Rootsblog	p. 148
Fade: Notes toward an African American Rhetoric 2.0	p. 153
Works Cited	p. 169
Index	p. 177
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