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Signifyin(g), sanctifyin', & slam dunking, a reader in African American expressive culture, edited by Gena Dagel Caponi

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Signifyin(g), sanctifyin', & slam dunking, a reader in African American expressive culture, edited by Gena Dagel Caponi

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [453]-459) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

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non fiction

Main title

Signifyin(g), sanctifyin', & slam dunking

Nature of contents

bibliography

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40820991

Responsibility statement

edited by Gena Dagel Caponi

Sub title

a reader in African American expressive culture

Table Of Contents

From preface to the books of American Negro spirituals / James Weldon Johnson -- An aesthetic of the cool: West African dance / Robert Farris Thompson -- Africa and the West Indies / Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns -- Playing the blues / Albert Murray -- Africans, Europeans and the making of music / Christopher Small -- Ring shout! Literary studies, historical studies, and Black music inquiry / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. -- The heterogeneous sound ideal in African-American music / Olly Wilson -- The impact of gospel music on the secular music industry / Portia K. Matltsby -- Flow, layering, and rupture in post industrial New York / Tricia Rose -- "Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life": meaning and style in African American vernacular dance / Jacqui Malone -- Lester Young and the birth of cool / Joel Dinerstein -- On the Jazz musician's love/hate relationship with the audience / Bertram D. Ashe -- Characteristics of Negro expression / Zora Neale Hurston -- Signifying, loud-talking and marking / Claudia Mitchell-Kernan -- Stylin' outta the Black pulpit / Grace Sims Holt -- A resistance too civilized to notice / William D. Piersen -- The Black and White truth about basketball / Jeff Greenfield -- The hero of the

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