Book chapter
The Imperial Sounds of Whiteness
Whiteness and American Literature, pp.13-26
Cambridge University Press
2025
DOI: 10.1017/9781009522748.003
Abstract
This chapter focuses on “Hot Time in the Old Town” (1896), a popular US song that played an important role in turn-of-the-century imperial culture. Tracing the Black origins and reputation of this de facto anthem, Stecopoulos demonstrates that white Americans used “raced” domestic culture as a means of asserting a national identity even as they sought to extend the borders of the United States through Caribbean and Pacific conquest. By contrast, African American intellectuals of the era recognized that the popularity of “Hot Time” might offer them a cultural means of legitimating Black claims on national identity.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Imperial Sounds of Whiteness
- Creators
- Harilaos Stecopoulos
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Whiteness and American Literature, pp.13-26
- DOI
- 10.1017/9781009522748.003
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; New York
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2025
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984945082902771
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