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Author Donald, James, 1948-

Title Some of these days : black stars, jazz aesthetics, and modernist culture / James Donald
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Contents ""Cover""; ""Some of These Days""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: A Migration of Stars""; ""1 New Negro: Paul Robeson�s Formation in Harlem""; ""2 Between the Jungle and the Skyscraper: Josephine Baker in Paris and Berlin""; ""3 Ballet mécanique: Jazz Aesthetics and Modernist Film""; ""4 Jazz in Stone and Steel: Josephine Baker and Modern Architecture""; ""5 Borderlines: Race, Cosmopolitanism, and the Modern Uncanny""; ""Color Plates""; ""6 Down the River of Dreams: Songs of Exile and Nostalgia""; ""7 Here I Stand: Performing Politics""
""Coda: Nick�s Bar, New York City""""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Plates (Plates between pages 128 and 129)""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Summary 'Some of These Days' shows how interwar European audiences, artists, and intellectuals particularly associated with modernism, used Black American culture - for which 'jazz' was often a shorthand - to negotiate the disorientating experience of modernity and modernization. One manifestation of this process was the fashionable Negrophilia of the 1920s, the decade in which the two most successful Black American stars of their era first made their names: Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson. The book is threaded around their careers, their travels, and their relationships
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject African Americans in the performing arts.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
Harlem Renaissance -- Influence
African Americans -- Music -- Influence
African American theater -- History -- 20th century
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- United States -- Influence
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
African American theater
African Americans
African Americans in the performing arts
African Americans -- Intellectual life
American literature -- African American authors
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Influence
Musique noire américaine.
Arts noirs américains.
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Music
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Music.
Musique.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014038062
ISBN 9780199354023
0199354022
9780199354047
0199354049