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Deep river : music and memory in Harlem Renaissance thought /

A critical and historical study of the debate over early African-American music that draws on the views of W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, and others to show competing notions of how this music relates to cultural inherita.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anderson, Paul Allen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
Colección:New Americanists.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Unvoiced longings": Du Bois and the "sorrow songs"
  • Swan songs and art songs: the spirituals and the "new Negro" in the 1920s
  • "The twilight of aestheticism": Locke on cosmopolitanism and musical evolution
  • "Beneath the seeming informality": Hughes, Hurston, and the politics of form
  • Saving jazz from its friends: the predicament of jazz criticism in the swing era.