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040			_aNISER LIBRARY _cNISER LIBRARY
041			_aEnglish
082			_a070.447:78 _bTHO-D
100			_aThomas, Lorenzo
245			_aDon't deny my name: _bwords and music and the black intellectual tradition
260			_aUSA: _bUniversity of Michigan Press, _c2008.
300			_a224p. _bPbk.
504			_aTable of contents One- All Blues: Roots and Extensions Two- Learning the Changes Three- America’s Classical Music Four- Songs for the People Appendix
520			_aBlack musical forms profoundly influenced the work of American poet and leading literary figure Lorenzo Thomas, and he wrote about them with keen insight---and obvious pleasure. This book, begun by Thomas before his death in 2005, collects more than a dozen of his savvy yet engagingly personal essays that probe the links between African American music, literature, and popular culture, from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Don't Deny My Name (which takes its title from a blues song by Jelly Roll Morton) begins by laying out the case that the blues is a body of literature that captured the experience of African American migrants to the urban North and newer territories to the West. The essays that follow collectively provide a tour of the movement through classic jazz, bop, and the explosions of the free jazz era, followed by a section on R&B and soul. The penultimate essay is a meditation on rap music that attempts to bring together the extremes of emotion that hip hop elicits, and the collection ends with an unfinished preface to the volume.
650			_aAfrican Americans _xMusic _xHistory and criticism
650			_aBlack Arts movement _xHistory
650			_aBlues (Music) _xHistory and criticism
650			_aJazz _xHistory and criticism
700			_aNielsen, Aldon Lynn (ed.)
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