Crossovers : essays on race, music, and American culture / John Szwed.

Author/creator Szwed, John F., 1936-
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2005.
Descriptionix, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Music and race.
African Americans.
Popular culture--United States. --History. --20th century.

Contents Writing Race and Culture -- Musical Style and Racial Conflict -- Musical Adaptation Among Afro-Americans -- An American Anthropological Dilemma: The Politics of Afro-American Culture -- Reconsideration: The Myth of the Negro Past -- Reconsideration: Lafcadio Hearn in Cincinnati / Carol Parssinen -- The Forest as Moral Document: The Achievement of Lydia Cabrera / Robert Farris Thompson -- Race and the Embodiment of Culture -- After the Myth: Studying Afro-American Cultural Patterns in the Plantation Literature / Roger D. Abrahams -- Speaking People, in Their Own Terms / Roger D. Abrahams -- Voices from Music and Dance -- The Lizards Fake the Fake -- As It Is Prophesied, So It Used To Be -- Greenwich's Good Gnosis -- Free Samples: Roy Nathanson and Anthony Coleman -- Milling at the Mall -- Childhood's Ends -- Sweet Feet -- From "Messin' Around" to "Funky Western Civilization": The Rise and Fall of Dance Instruction Songs / Sally Banes -- The Afro-American Transformation of European Set Dances and Dance Suites / Morton Marks -- All That Beef, and Symbolic Action, Too! Notes on the Occasion of the Banning of 2 Live Crew's As Nasty as They Wanna Be -- The Real Old School -- World Views Collide-Jazz Overseas -- Josef Skvorecky and the Tradition of Jazz Literature -- World Views Collide: The History of Jazz and Hot Dance -- Way Down Yonder in Buenos Aires -- Improvising Under Apartheid: Afro Blue -- Open Works -- Sonny Rollins in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Sun Ra, 1914-1993 -- !Ornette Coleman:?Civilization.
Abstract Ranging across genres from the popular to the scholarly, this selection of John Szwed's published essays abides in the intersection of race and art, jazz and rap: crossovers inside and outside the academy. With reviews written for the Village Voice and articles from academic journals, this volume includes essays, commentary, and meditations.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-272) and index.
LCCN 2005042233
ISBN0812238826 (cloth : alk. paper)

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