Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought (New Americanists)

by PaulAllenAnderson (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $49.26

  Focuses on the role of African American folk music in Renaissance aesthetic and political debates about racial performance, social memory, and national identity. This book elucidates how spirituals, African American concert music, the blues, and jazz became symbolic sites of social memory and anticipation in the era of the Harlem Renaissance.