Author:

Anderson, Paul Allen  Search this

Physical description:

x, 335 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

New York (State)

New York

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

2001

20th century

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

Topic:

African Americans--Music--History and criticism  Search this

Harlem Renaissance  Search this

Intellectual life  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_825632