TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grandt,Jürgen E.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Shaping Words to Fit the Soul : : The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism / 
SN  - 9780814271452
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Columbus
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - Wright, Richard,
KW  - Toomer, Jean,
KW  - Jones, Tayari.
KW  - Handy, W. C.
KW  - Douglass, Frederick,
KW  - Jones, Tayari
KW  - Allman Brothers Band
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Hip-Hop
KW  - gnd
KW  - Jazz
KW  - Blues
KW  - Mündliche Überlieferung
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Modernism (Music)
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Modernisme (Litterature)
KW  - Modernisme (Musique)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Schwarze
KW  - swd
KW  - USA
KW  - Südstaaten
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27753/
ER  -