Deep River : Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. ‘‘Unvoiced Longings’’: Du Bois and the ‘‘Sorrow Songs’’ -- Two. Swan Songs and Art Songs: The Spirituals and the ‘‘New Negro’’ in the 1920s -- Three. ‘‘The Twilight of Aestheticism’’: Locke on Cosmopolitanism and Musical Evolution --...
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. ‘‘Unvoiced Longings’’: Du Bois and the ‘‘Sorrow Songs’’ -- Two. Swan Songs and Art Songs: The Spirituals and the ‘‘New Negro’’ in the 1920s -- Three. ‘‘The Twilight of Aestheticism’’: Locke on Cosmopolitanism and Musical Evolution -- Four. ‘‘Beneath the Seeming Informality’’: Hughes, Hurston, and the Politics of Form -- Five. Saving Jazz from Its Friends: The Predicament of Jazz Criticism in the Swing Era -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung