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Deep river : music and memory in Harlem Renaissance thought / Paul Allen Anderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Paul Allen.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- New Americanists.
- New Americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- Harlem Renaissance.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- "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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-323) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613063007
- 9781283063005
- 128306300X
- 9780822383048
- 0822383047
- OCLC:
- 220950046
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