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Ronald Radano offers a new understanding of Black music, arguing that its value developed from the historical relation of race and capital.
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Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Black Labor, Value, and the Anomalies of Enlivened Sound 1
First Metamorphosis: Property’s Properties of Reconstructive Possibility
1. Slave Labor and the Emergence of a Peculiar Music 41
Second Metamorphosis: Free Labor and the Racial-Economic Transaction of Animated Form
2. Scabrous Sounds of a Vagrant Proletariat 81
3. Minstrelsy’s Incredible Corporealities 118
Third Metamorphosis: Contests of Ownership in Early National Markets
4. Ragtime’s Double-Time Accumulation 159
5. New Coalescences of Spectacular Form: Stride Piano and Ragtime Piano Rolls 189
6. Commodity Circuits and the Making of a Jazz Counterhistory 223
Fourth Metamorphosis: Racialized Embodiments of Hypercapitalized Pop
7. Swing: Black Music’s New Modern Becoming 283
8. Living Forms, Imagined Truths: Aesthetic Breakthroughs in Jazz at Midcentury 331
9. Apotheosis of a New Black Music 365
Afterword: Modernity’s Ghosts 424
Notes 429
Bibliography 493
Index
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Ronald Radano is Professor Emeritus of African Cultural Studies and Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Among his books is
Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique, also published by Duke University Press.
