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.