| Contents |
Writing Race and Culture -- Musical Style and Racial Conflict -- Musical Adaptation Among Afro-Americans -- An American Anthropological Dilemma: The Politics of Afro-American Culture -- Reconsideration: The Myth of the Negro Past -- Reconsideration: Lafcadio Hearn in Cincinnati / Carol Parssinen -- The Forest as Moral Document: The Achievement of Lydia Cabrera / Robert Farris Thompson -- Race and the Embodiment of Culture -- After the Myth: Studying Afro-American Cultural Patterns in the Plantation Literature / Roger D. Abrahams -- Speaking People, in Their Own Terms / Roger D. Abrahams -- Voices from Music and Dance -- The Lizards Fake the Fake -- As It Is Prophesied, So It Used To Be -- Greenwich's Good Gnosis -- Free Samples: Roy Nathanson and Anthony Coleman -- Milling at the Mall -- Childhood's Ends -- Sweet Feet -- From "Messin' Around" to "Funky Western Civilization": The Rise and Fall of Dance Instruction Songs / Sally Banes -- The Afro-American Transformation of European Set Dances and Dance Suites / Morton Marks -- All That Beef, and Symbolic Action, Too! Notes on the Occasion of the Banning of 2 Live Crew's As Nasty as They Wanna Be -- The Real Old School -- World Views Collide-Jazz Overseas -- Josef Skvorecky and the Tradition of Jazz Literature -- World Views Collide: The History of Jazz and Hot Dance -- Way Down Yonder in Buenos Aires -- Improvising Under Apartheid: Afro Blue -- Open Works -- Sonny Rollins in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Sun Ra, 1914-1993 -- !Ornette Coleman:?Civilization. |
| Abstract |
Ranging across genres from the popular to the scholarly, this selection of John Szwed's published essays abides in the intersection of race and art, jazz and rap: crossovers inside and outside the academy. With reviews written for the Village Voice and articles from academic journals, this volume includes essays, commentary, and meditations. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-272) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005042233 |
| ISBN | 0812238826 (cloth : alk. paper) |
