Everything Man
The Form and Function of Paul Robeson
From his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century’s greatest icons and polymaths. In Everything Man Shana L. Redmond traces Robeson’s continuing cultural resonances in popular culture and politics. She follows his appearance throughout the twentieth century in the forms of sonic and visual vibration and holography; theater, art, and play; and the physical environment. Redmond thereby creates an imaginative cartography in which Robeson remains present and accountable to all those he inspired and defended. With her bold and unique theorization of antiphonal life, Redmond charts the possibility of continued communication, care, and collectivity with those who are dead but never gone.
Everything Man Introduction
Awards
- 2022 Irving Lowens Book Award, Society for American Music
- 2021 Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, American Musicological Society
- 2021 Finalist, ASALH Book Prize, Association for the Sudy of African American Life & History
- Named to National Public radio (NPR) Best Books of 2020
- 2021 Walter & Lilian Lowenfels Award for Criticism, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
- 2021 Finalist, Sterling Stuckey Book Prize, Association for the study of Worldwide African Diaspora
- 2020 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine
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