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Signifyin(g), sanctifyin' & slam dunking : a reader in African american expressive culture
- Title
- Signifyin(g), sanctifyin' & slam dunking : a reader in African american expressive culture / edited by Gena Dagel Caponi.
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1999.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 00-2967 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Caponi-Tabery, Gena.
- Description
- viii, 467 p.; 25 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Signifyin(g), sanctifyin' and slam dunking
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-459) and index.
- Contents
- From preface to the books of American Negro spirituals / James Weldon Johnson -- An aesthetic of the cool: West African dance / Robert Farris Thompson -- Africa and the West Indies / Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns -- Playing the blues / Albert Murray -- Africans, Europeans and the making of music / Christopher Small -- Ring shout! Literary studies, historical studies, and Black music inquiry / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. -- The heterogeneous sound ideal in African-American music / Olly Wilson -- The impact of gospel music on the secular music industry / Portia K. Matltsby -- Flow, layering, and rupture in post industrial New York / Tricia Rose -- "Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life" : meaning and style in African American vernacular dance / Jacqui Malone -- Lester Young and the birth of cool / Joel Dinerstein -- On the Jazz musician's love/hate relationship with the audience / Bertram D. Ashe -- Characteristics of Negro expression / Zora Neale Hurston -- Signifying, loud-talking and marking / Claudia Mitchell-Kernan -- Stylin' outta the Black pulpit / Grace Sims Holt -- A resistance too civilized to notice / William D. Piersen -- The Black and White truth about basketball / Jeff Greenfield -- The hero of the blues / Gerald Early -- Michael Jordan leaps the great divide / John Edgar Wideman -- Be like Mike? Michael Jordan and the pedagogy of desire / Michael Eric Dyson -- African-American festive style / William D. Peirsen -- From "strolling, jooking, and fixy clothes" / Shane White and Graham White.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-2967
- ISBN
- 1558491821 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 155849183X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99018345
- OCLC
- 40820991
- Title
- Signifyin(g), sanctifyin' & slam dunking : a reader in African american expressive culture / edited by Gena Dagel Caponi.
- Imprint
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-459) and index.
- Added Author
- Caponi-Tabery, Gena.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-2967Sc E 00-246