Deep River Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought

Name: Deep River Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought
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ISBN: 9780822325918

ISBN-10: 0822325918

ISBN-13: 9780822325918

Edition: 2001

Authors: Paul Allen Anderson

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"The American Negro," Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, "must remake his past in order to make his future." Many Harlem Renaissance figures agreed that re-framing the black folk inheritance could play a major role in imagining a new future of racial equality and artistic freedom. In Deep River Paul Allen Anderson focuses on the role of African American folk music in Renaissance aesthetic and political debates about racial performance, social memory, and national identity.Deep River elucidates how spirituals, African American concert music, the blues, and jazz became symbolic sites of social memory and anticipation in the era of the Harlem Renaissance. Anderson traces the roots of the period's…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 7/19/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



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