God and Blackness Mark A Runco African American music in the

African American music in the early 20th century

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God and Blackness Mark A Runco African American music in theBlackness, as a concept, is extremely fluid: it can refer to cultural and ethnic identity, socio political status, an aesthetic and embodied way of being, a social and political consciousness, or a diasporic kinship. It is used as a description of skin color ranging from the palest cream to the richest chocolate; as a marker of enslavement, marginalization, criminality, filth, or evil; or as a symbol of pride, beauty, elegance, strength, and depth.