From preface to the books of American Negro
... spirituals / James Weldon Johnson -- Aesthetic of the cool : West African dance / Robert Farris Thompson -- Africa and the West Indies / Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns -- Playing the blues / Albert Murray -- Africans, Europeans and the making of music / Christopher Small -- Ring shout! Literary studies, historical studies, and Black music inquiry / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. -- Heterogeneous sound ideal in African-American music / Olly Wilson -- Impact of gospel music on the secular music industry / Portia K. Maultsby -- Flow, layering, and rupture in post industrial New York / Tricia Rose -- "Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life" : meaning and style in African American vernacular dance / Jacqui Malone -- Lester Young and the birth of cool / Joel Dinerstein -- On the Jazz musician's love/hate relationship with the audience / Bertram D. Ashe -- Characteristics of Negro expression / Zora Neale Hurston -- Signifying, loud-talking and marking / Claudia Mitchell-Kernan -- Stylin' outta the Black pulpit / Grace Sims Holt -- Resistance too civilized to notice / William D. Piersen -- Black and White truth about basketball / Jeff Greenfield -- Hero of the blues / Gerald Early -- Michael Jordan leaps the great divide / John Edgar Wideman -- Be like Mike? : Michael Jordan and the pedagogy of desire / Michael Eric Dyson -- African-American festive style / William D. Peirsen -- From "strolling, jooking, and fixy clothes" / Shane White and Graham White. Read More