Deep River - Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought

"Paul Anderson's "Deep River" is the best, most convincing, and most richly textured work on black socio-musical criticism in print. In examining the views of twelve commentators on black music, ranging from W. E. B. DuBois and his 'sorrow songs' theory to Wynton Marsalis and his jazz neoclassicism, Anderson builds his interpretations and critiques on that of previous and current critics to develop a sophisticated examination and treatment of important ideas about social and cultural positioning of black music in America. I recommend this book to anyone interested in black music as a field of study or inquiry."--Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., Columbia College

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. “Unvoiced Longings”: Du Bois and the Sorrow Songs

2. Swan Songs and Art Songs: The Spirituals and the “New Negro” in the 1920s

3. “The Twilight of Aestheticism”: Locke on Cosmopolitanism and Musical Evolution

4. “Beneath the Seeming Informality”: Hughes, Hurston, and the Politics of Form

5. Saving Jazz From Its Friends: The Predicament of Jazz Criticism in the Swing Era

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the author

Paul Allen Anderson is Assistant Professor of American Culture and African American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Allen Anderson
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780822325918
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2591-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 528 g
• Illustrations: 8 b&w photographs
• Series: New Americanists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Musik, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Regionalstudien