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Shaping Words to Fit the Soul : The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…A life and power far beyond the letter : the Afro-modernism of life and times of Frederick Douglass -- Shaping words to fit the soul : Afro-modernism and the breakdown of communication in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Roll call : Richard Wright's "Long black song" and the betrayal of music -- Blues and the abstract truth : the Southern groove continuum from W.C. …”
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China and the West : Music, Representation, and Reception /

Table of Contents: “…Music, China, and the West : a musical-theoretical introduction /…”
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The Making of the Humanities, Volume III : The Modern Humanities /

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Divided Dreamworlds? : The Cultural Cold War in East and West /

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American Creoles : The Francophone Caribbean and the American South /

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Memory : Histories, Theories, Debates /

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Crossing Central Europe : Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Border, transborder, and unification : music and its divergent roles in the nineteenth-century Habsburg territories /…”
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West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals : History, Memory, and Transnationalism / by Njoku, Raphael Chijioke

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On Origins of Masking: History, Memory, and Ritual Observances -- Aspects of Society and Culture in the Biafra Hinterland -- Bantu Migrations and Cultural Transnationalism in the Ancient Global Age, c. 2500 BCE-1400 CE -- Bight of Biafra, Slavery, and Diasporic Africa in the Modern Global Age, 1400-1800 -- Igbo Masquerade Dances in the African Diasporas:Symbols and Meanings -- Unmasking the Masquerade: Counterideologies and Contemporary Practices -- Idioms of Religion, Music, Dance, and African Art Forms -- Memory and Masquerade Narratives: The Art of Remembering.…”
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