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The grey album ; on the blackness of blackness / Kevin Young.
Van Pelt Library NX512.3.A35 Y68 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Kevin, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American arts--Criticism and interpretation.
- African American arts.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- African Americans.
- African Americans in popular culture.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Music.
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Music.
- Storytelling.
- Physical Description:
- 483 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- "Taking its title from Danger Mouse's pioneering mashup of Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles' The White Album, Kevin Young's encyclopedic book combines essay, cultural criticism, and lyrical choruses to illustrate the African American tradition of lying-telling tales, fibbing, improvising, jazzing up, "storying." What emerges is a persuasive argument for the many ways that African American culture is American culture, and for the centrality of art-and artfulness-to our daily lives. Moving from gospel to soul, funk to freestyle, Young shifts through the shadows, the bootleg, the remix-all the grey areas of our history, literature, and music."--Cover p. [4].
- Contents:
- Overture
- Elsewhere. The shadow book ; How not to be a slave : on the Black art of escape ; Chorus One : Steal away : slavery and its discontents
- Strange fruit. Broken tongue : Paul Laurence Dunbar, his descendants, and the dance of intellect ; Chorus Two : It don't mean a thing : the blues mask of Modernism ; "If you can't read, run anyhow!" : Langston Hughes and the poetics of refusal
- Heaven is Negro. Chorus Three : Ugly beauty : Postmodernism and all that jazz ; Broken giraffe : Bob Kaufman, the song, and the silence ; Chorus Four : Moanin' : soul music and the power of pleasure
- Cosmic slop. Interstellar space : toward a post-soul poetics ; Final chorus : Planet Rock : the end of the record. The third coming ; 100 guns ; 36 chambers ; 99 problems ; Deadism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781555976071
- 1555976077
- OCLC:
- 740628824
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