Black style / edited by Carol Tulloch.

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Publication details: London : V & A Publications ; New York : Distributed in North America by Herry N. Abrams, Inc., 2004.Description: 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1851774246
9781851774241

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Exhibition catalogues.

Additional physical formats: Black style.DDC classification:

391.008996 22

LOC classification:

GT511 .B54 2004

Other classification:

LC 12000

Contents:

Introduction : 'It's good to have the feeling you're the best' / Carol Tulloch -- What to wear in West Africa : textile design, dress and self-representation / John Picton -- Beyond binaries : respecting the improvisation in African-American style / Susan Kaiser [and others] -- Dancehall dress : competing codes of decency in Jamaica / Carolyn Cooper -- Check it : Black style in Britain / Carol Tulloch.

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Copies A,B,C collated 20041007 Complete

Summary: 'Black Style' looks at the huge variety to be seen in black dress, hair and accessories, whether in West Africa, Jamaica, or reinvented on the streets of the United States and Great Britain.

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Books	OCLC Data		Available		0000000010489

Book accompanies the exhibition "Black British Style" at the V & A Museum Oct. 2004-Jan. 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (page 124) and index.

Copies A,B,C collated 20041007 Complete UkLNAL

'Black Style' looks at the huge variety to be seen in black dress, hair and accessories, whether in West Africa, Jamaica, or reinvented on the streets of the United States and Great Britain.

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