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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2009Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (232 pages)Content type:
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  • 9780814271452
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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. Handy to the Allman Brothers Band -- Life and death in the Dirty South : the urban ritual grounds of Tayari Jones -- Conclusion. "The biggest colored show on earth" : Afro-modernism, hip-hop, and postmodern blackness.
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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. Handy to the Allman Brothers Band -- Life and death in the Dirty South : the urban ritual grounds of Tayari Jones -- Conclusion. "The biggest colored show on earth" : Afro-modernism, hip-hop, and postmodern blackness.

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