Anderson / Pease Deep River

Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8304-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 346 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Paul Allen

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. “Unvoiced Longings”: Du Bois and the Sorrow Songs

2. Swan Songs and Art Songs: The Spirituals and the “New Negro” in the 1920s

3. “The Twilight of Aestheticism”: Locke on Cosmopolitanism and Musical Evolution

4. “Beneath the Seeming Informality”: Hughes, Hurston, and the Politics of Form

5. Saving Jazz From Its Friends: The Predicament of Jazz Criticism in the Swing Era

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Allen Anderson is Assistant Professor of American Culture and African American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.