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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best".…”
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Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best".…”
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The Black Musician and the White City : Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967
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The Black Musician and the White City : Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967
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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Butler's Kindred and Gayl Jone's Corregidora sing the time travel blues / Jennifer E. Henton -- Beyond the history we know: Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Nisi Shawl, and Jarla Tangh rethink science fiction tradition / De Witt Douglas Kilgore -- Bubbling champagne power trip / Nisi Shawl -- Of course people can fly / Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu -- Carla Johnson/Jarla Tangh: a close encounter with my pseudonym / Jarla Tangh -- The book of Martha / Octavia E. …”
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May '68 : Shaping Political Generations /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…; Redefining the role of parents; Anne: remaining faithful to the break; 1949-1968: the baby boom blues; 1970-1974: Maoism, becoming an etabli, theatre, communal living and motherhood; Sparking a peasant revolt: from disillusion to disillusion…”
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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Butler's Kindred and Gayl Jone's Corregidora sing the time travel blues / Jennifer E. Henton -- Beyond the history we know: Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Nisi Shawl, and Jarla Tangh rethink science fiction tradition / De Witt Douglas Kilgore -- Bubbling champagne power trip / Nisi Shawl -- Of course people can fly / Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu -- Carla Johnson/Jarla Tangh: a close encounter with my pseudonym / Jarla Tangh -- The book of Martha / Octavia E. …”
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May '68 : Shaping Political Generations /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…; Redefining the role of parents; Anne: remaining faithful to the break; 1949-1968: the baby boom blues; 1970-1974: Maoism, becoming an etabli, theatre, communal living and motherhood; Sparking a peasant revolt: from disillusion to disillusion…”
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