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Listening for Africa : Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins / by García, David F.

Table of Contents: “…Analyzing the African origins of Negro music and dance in a time of racism, fascism, and war -- Listening to Africa in the city, in the laboratory, and on record -- Embodying Africa against racial oppression, ignorance, and colonialism -- Disalienating movement and sound from the pathologies of freedom and time -- Desiring Africa, or Western civilization's discontents -- Conclusion: dance-music as rhizome.…”
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South End Shout : Boston’s Forgotten Music Scene in the Jazz Age / by House, Roger, 1957-

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The games black girls play learning the ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop / by Gaunt, Kyra Danielle

Table of Contents: “…Slide : games as lessons in black musical style -- Education, liberation : learning the ropes of a musical blackness -- Mary Mack dressed in black : the earliest formation of a popular music -- Saw you with your boyfriend : music between the sexes -- Whose got next game? …”
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The plays to 1942 Mulatto to the sun do move / by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Table of Contents: “…A poetry play from slavery through the blues to now - and then some! With singing, music, and dancing (1938) -- Six satires (1938) -- The sun do move (1942).…”
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