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Included in the anthology is newly researched biographical sketches of each poet, a year-by-year chronology of poets and poetry from 1800-1900, and extensive notes.

American poetry --- Poésie américaine --- Poésie américaine --- 19th century --- Poetry --- Indians of North America --- Folk songs --- Folk poetry --- Spirituals (Songs) --- African Americans --- African American music --- Afro-American music --- Afro-American songs --- Black American music --- Black music (African American music) --- Negro music --- Negro songs --- Topical songs (Negro) --- Topical songs (Negroes) --- African American spirituals --- Afro-American spirituals --- Negro spirituals --- Folk songs, English --- Hymns, English --- Oral poetry --- Folk literature --- Folksongs --- Folk music --- National music --- Songs --- Ballads --- National songs --- Music

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Pim Higginson draws on race theory, aesthetics, cultural studies, musicology, and postcolonial studies to examine the convergence of aesthetics and race in Western thought and to explore its impact on Francophone African literature. France's "tumulte noir," the jazz craze between the two world wars, consolidated an aesthetic model present in Western philosophy since Plato that coalesced into French "scientific" racism over the 19th century; a model which formalized the notion of music as black. France's "jazzophilia" codified what the author names the "racial score:" simultaneously an archive and script that, in defining jazz as "black music," has had wide-reaching effects on contemporary perceptions of the artistic and political efficacy of black writers, musicians, and their aesthetic productions. Reading avant-garde French writers Sartre and Soupault to prize-winning Francophone authors Congolese Emmanuel Dongala to Cameroonian Léonora Miano, Scoring Race explores how jazz masters Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane became touchstones for claims to African authorship and aesthetic subjectivity across the long twentieth century. This volume focuses on how this naturalization of black musicality occurred and its impact on Francophone African writers and filmmakers for whom the idea of their own essential musicality represented an epistemological obstacle. Despite this obstacle, because of jazz's profound importance to diaspora aesthetics, as well as its crucial role in the French imaginary, many African writers have chosen to make it a structuring principle of their literary projects. How and why, Pim Higginson asks, did these writers and filmmakers approach jazz and its participation in and formalization of the "racial score"? To what extent did they reproduce the terms of their own systematic expulsion into music and to what extent, in their impossible demand for writing (or film-making), did they arrive at tactical means of working through, around, or beyond the strictures of their assumed musicality? Pim Higginson is Professor of Global French Studies at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

African literature (French) --- French literature --- History and criticism. --- African authors --- Jazz in literature. --- 1900-1999 --- Frankophones Afrika. --- Französischsprachiges Afrika --- Französisches Sprachgebiet --- Afrika --- African American music. --- Charlie Parker. --- Duke Ellington. --- Emmanuel Dongala. --- France. --- French. --- John Coltrane. --- Leonora Miano. --- Louis Armstrong. --- Sartre. --- cultural studies. --- jazz in Paris. --- jazz. --- musicology. --- race.

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Best known for his work as a member of the avant-garde African American free jazz groups Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Jarman is also a poet, writing poems of exile, travel and return home. Volume I contains poems composed 1960 to 1970; volume II from1972-1974. Volume II includes more prose, and is directed towards musicians and theatre people, with three poems "set" to music. All poems are undated.

Exiles --- Return migration --- Jazz --- African Americans --- American poetry --- African American musicians --- Black Arts movement --- kunst --- muziek --- jazz --- literatuur --- poëzie --- Verenigde Staten --- twintigste eeuw --- Afro-Amerikanen --- performances --- 7.071 JARMAN --- African American arts --- Black Mountain school (Group of poets) --- African American poetry (English) --- Black poetry (American) --- Negro poetry --- Afro-American musicians --- Musicians, African American --- Negro musicians --- Musicians --- African American music --- Afro-American music --- Afro-American songs --- Black American music --- Black music (African American music) --- Negro music --- Negro songs --- Topical songs (Negro) --- Topical songs (Negroes) --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Migration, Return --- Emigration and immigration --- Repatriation --- Race identity --- African American authors --- Afro-American authors --- Negro authors --- Jarman, Joseph --- Exile --- Travel --- Homes and haunts --- Musique et poésie. --- Black Arts movement. --- Poetry. --- African American authors. --- Black people

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Before the advent of cable and its hundreds of channels, before iPods and the Internet, three television networks ruled America's evenings. And for twenty-three years, Ed Sullivan, the Broadway gossip columnist turned awkward emcee, ruled Sunday nights. It was Sullivan's genius to take a worn-out stage genre-vaudeville-and transform it into the TV variety show, a format that was to dominate for decades. Right Here on Our Stage Tonight! tells the complete saga of The Ed Sullivan Show and, through the voices of some 60 stars interviewed for the book, brings to life the most beloved, diverse, multi-cultural, and influential variety hour ever to air. Gerald Nachman takes us through those years, from the earliest dog acts and jugglers to Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and beyond. Sullivan was the first TV impresario to feature black performers on a regular basis-including Nat King Cole, Pearl Bailey, James Brown, and Richard Pryor-challenging his conservative audience and his own traditional tastes, and changing the face of American popular culture along the way. No other TV show ever cut such a broad swath through our national life or cast such a long shadow, nor has there ever been another show like it. Nachman's compulsively readable history, illustrated with classic photographs and chocked with colorful anecdotes, reanimates The Ed Sullivan Show for a new generation.

Television personalities --- Sullivan, Ed, --- Ed Sullivan show (Television program) --- Toast of the town (Television program) --- Sullivan, Edward Vincent, --- 20th century american popular culture. --- african american music. --- american popular culture. --- american television. --- broadway gossip columnist. --- career. --- dog acts. --- ed sullivan. --- elvis presley. --- entertainment industry. --- entertainment. --- james brown. --- jugglers. --- music. --- musicians. --- nat king cole. --- pearl bailey. --- race in america. --- retrospective. --- richard pryor. --- show business. --- television history. --- television. --- the beatles. --- the ed sullivan show. --- tv variety show. --- united states of america. --- vaudeville.

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This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family gatherings with food and dancing, and jam sessions at local nightclubs. This lays the foundation for a brilliant discussion of how musical meaning emerges in the private and communal realms of lived experience and how African American music has shaped and reflected identities in the black community. Deeply informed by Ramsey's experience as an accomplished musician, a sophisticated cultural theorist, and an enthusiast brought up in the community he discusses, Race Music explores the global influence and popularity of African American music, its social relevance, and key questions regarding its interpretation and criticism. Beginning with jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel, this book demonstrates that while each genre of music is distinct-possessing its own conventions, performance practices, and formal qualities-each is also grounded in similar techniques and conceptual frameworks identified with African American musical traditions. Ramsey provides vivid glimpses of the careers of Dinah Washington, Louis Jordan, Dizzy Gillespie, Cootie Williams, and Mahalia Jackson, among others, to show how the social changes of the 1940's elicited an Afro-modernism that inspired much of the music and culture that followed. Race Music illustrates how, by transcending the boundaries between genres, black communities bridged generational divides and passed down knowledge of musical forms and styles. It also considers how the discourse of soul music contributed to the vibrant social climate of the Black Power Era. Multilayered and masterfully written, Race Music provides a dynamic framework for rethinking the many facets of African American music and the ethnocentric energy that infused its creation.

African Americans in popular culture --- Afro-Americains dans la culture populaire --- Afro-Amerikanen in de volkscultuur --- African Americans - Music - History and criticism. --- African Americans in popular culture. --- Popular music - Social aspects - United States. --- Music History & Criticism, National - Folk, Patriotic, Political --- Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- African Americans --- Popular music --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- Afro-Americans in popular culture --- Popular culture --- Music, Popular --- Music, Popular (Songs, etc.) --- Pop music --- Popular songs --- Popular vocal music --- Songs, Popular --- Vocal music, Popular --- Cover versions --- History and criticism --- United States --- african american music. --- african americans. --- afro modernism. --- american history. --- bebop. --- black americans. --- black communities. --- black culture. --- black music. --- black power era. --- chicago. --- cootie williams. --- cultural theorists. --- dinah washington. --- dizzy gillespie. --- ethnocentric. --- gospel music. --- hip hop. --- jam sessions. --- jazz. --- louis jordan. --- mahalia jackson. --- music and culture. --- musical meaning. --- musical styles. --- musicology. --- nonfiction. --- racial issues. --- rhythm and blues. --- social changes.