| Description |
viii, 467 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [453]-459) and index. |
| Contents |
From preface to the books of American Negro spirituals / James Weldon Johnson -- An aesthetic of the cool: West African dance / Robert Farris Thompson -- Africa and the West Indies / Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns -- Playing the blues / Albert Murray -- Africans, Europeans and the making of music / Christopher Small -- Ring shout! Literary studies, historical studies, and Black music inquiry / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. -- The heterogeneous sound ideal in |
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African-American music / Olly Wilson -- The impact of gospel music on the secular music industry / Portia K. Matltsby -- Flow, layering, and rupture in post industrial New York / Tricia Rose -- "Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life" : meaning and style in African American vernacular dance / Jacqui Malone -- Lester Young and the birth of cool / Joel Dinerstein -- On the Jazz musician's love/hate relationship with the audience / Bertram D. Ashe -- |
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Characteristics of Negro expression / Zora Neale Hurston -- Signifying, loud-talking and marking / Claudia Mitchell-Kernan -- Stylin' outta the Black pulpit / Grace Sims Holt -- A resistance too civilized to notice / William D. Piersen -- The Black and White truth about basketball / Jeff Greenfield -- The hero of the blues / Gerald Early -- Michael Jordan leaps the great divide / John Edgar Wideman -- Be like Mike? Michael Jordan and the pedagogy of desire |
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/ Michael Eric Dyson -- African-American festive style / William D. Peirsen -- From "strolling, jooking, and fixy clothes" / Shane White and Graham White. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Social life and customs.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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African American dance.
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African Americans -- Music.
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African American aesthetics.
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African Americans -- Languages.
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African Americans -- Sports.
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United States -- Civilization -- African American influences.
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| Added Author |
Caponi-Tabery, Gena.
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| Added Title |
Signifyin(g), sanctifyin', and slam dunking |
| ISBN |
1558491821 cloth alkaline paper |
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155849183X paperback alkaline paper |
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