| Description |
vi, 160 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-152) and index. |
| Contents |
Rap on rhythm / Juliette Bowles -- Jazz time and our time: a view from the outside in / Mark Sumner Harvey -- Some aesthetic suggestions for a working theory of the "undeniable groove": how do we speak about Black rhythm, setting text, and composition? / William Banfield -- Rhythm and rhyme in rap / Angela M. S. Nelson -- The music of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Richard Lischer -- Rhythm in Claude McKay's "Harlem dancer" / Ronald Dorris -- Chanting down Babylon: three Rastafarian dub poets / Darren J. N. Middleton -- Rhythm as modality and discourse in Daughters of the dust / D. Soyini Madison -- Rhythms of resistance: the role of freedom song in South Africa / Alton B. Pollard III -- The rhythm of everyday politics: public performance and political transitions in Mali / Zeric Kay Smith. |
| Subject |
African Americans.
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Black people.
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Rhythm.
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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African American aesthetics.
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Aesthetics, Black.
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African American arts.
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Arts, Black.
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| Added Author |
Nelson, Angela M. S., 1964-
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| ISBN |
1570031908 |
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