Tag: Pixar
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Black and white in Technicolor: Jazz and Racism in the modern movie musical
2018’s BlacKkKlansman closes to a hauntingly jivey rendition of Prince singing ‘Mary Don’t You Weep’, a negro spiritual, which tends to be a kinder way of saying ‘slave song’ (Lee, 2018). As with most pre-emancipation music, this was a song amongst African Americans that coded messages of resilience within religious narratives. For context, the last visuals of the…