Deep River

by Anderson, Paul Allen; Pease, Donald E.

• ISBN13: 9780822325772
• ISBN10: 0822325772
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"While many scholars have attempted histories of the early years of jazz--and even more have examined Du Bois's appeals to the musical in his social and cultural criticism--few have attempted the kind of sustained examination of the critical debates about black music that Anderson does. "Deep River "places these long-standing debates in a crucial new context."--Aldon L. Nielsen, author of "Black Chant: Languages of African American Postmodernism"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

"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

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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