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Signifyin(g), sanctifyin', & slam dunking : a reader in African American expressive culture / edited by Gena Dagel Caponi.

Other author/creatorCaponi, Gena Dagel, 1953-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1999.
Descriptionviii, 467 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Variant title Signifyin', sanctifyin', & slam dunking
Variant title Signifying, sanctifying, & slam dunking
Variant title Signifyin(g), sanctifyin', and slam dunking
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.
Local noteLittle-326190--3051310396952
Local noteLittle-348217--305131054545-
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [453]-459) and index.
LCCN 99018345
ISBN1558491821 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN155849183X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E185.86 .S575 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold