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Author Anderson, Paul Allen, author.

Title Deep river : music and memory in Harlem Renaissance thought / Paul Allen Anderson
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 335 pages) : illustrations
Series New Americanists
New Americanists.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-323) and index
Notes English
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Subject African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism
Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem Renaissance.
MUSIC -- Ethnomusicology.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Jazz.
African Americans -- Music
Harlem Renaissance
Intellectual life
Musik Motiv
Erinnerung Motiv
Afroamerikanische Musik
Harlem renaissance
SUBJECT Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Subject New York (State) -- New York
New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem
New York- Harlem
Genre/Form Music
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Music.
Musique.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822383048
0822383047
128306300X
9781283063005
9786613063007
6613063002