![]() ![]() Chorus three : ugly beauty : postmodernism and all that jazz - Broken giraffe : Bob Kaufman, the song, and the silence - Chorus four : moanin' : soul music and the power of pleasure - bk. Broken tongue : Paul Laurence Dunbar, his descendants, and the dance of dialect - Chorus two : it don't mean a thing : the blues mask of modernism - "If you can't read, run anyhow!" : Langston Hughes and the poetics of refusal - bk. ![]() ![]() The shadow book - How not to be a slave : on the Black art of escape - Chorus one : steal away : slavery and its discontents - bk. ![]() Includes bibliographical references and index Moving from gospel to soul, funk to freestyle, Young shifts through the shadows, the bootleg, the remix-all the grey areas of our history, literature, and music."-P. "Taking its title from Danger Mouse's pioneering mash-up of Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles' The White Album, Kevin Young's encyclopedic book combines essay, cultural criticism, and lyrical chorus to illustrate the African American tradition of lying-telling tales, fibbing, improvising, jazzing up, "storying." What emerges is a persuasive argument for the many ways that African American culture is American culture, and for the centrality of art-and artfulness-to our daily lives. ![]()
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