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Deep river : music and memory in Harlem Renaissance thought / Paul Allen Anderson.

By: Anderson, Paul Allen
Material type: TextTextSeries: New Americanists: Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001Description: x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0822325918 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0822325772 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism | Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | Harlem RenaissanceDDC classification: 780/.89/9607307471 LOC classification: ML3556 | .A53 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-323) and index.
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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-323) and index.

"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.

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