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  1. Jazz internationalism
    literary Afro-modernism and the cultural politics of black music
    Author: Lowney, John
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana

    "Jazz Internationalism offers a bold reconsideration of jazz's influence in Afro-modernist literature. Ranging from the New Negro Renaissance through the social movements of the 1960s, John Lowney articulates nothing less than a new history of... more

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    "Jazz Internationalism offers a bold reconsideration of jazz's influence in Afro-modernist literature. Ranging from the New Negro Renaissance through the social movements of the 1960s, John Lowney articulates nothing less than a new history of Afro-modernist jazz writing. Jazz added immeasurably to the vocabulary for discussing radical internationalism and black modernism in leftist African American literature. Lowney examines how Claude McKay, Ann Petry, Langston Hughes, and many other writers employed jazz as both a critical social discourse and mode of artistic expression to explore the possibilities "and challenges "of black internationalism. The result is an expansive understanding of jazz writing sure to spur new debates"-- A Silent Beat in Between the DrumsBebop, Post-Bop, and the Black Beat Poetics of Bob Kaufma;A New Kind of MusicPaule Marshall, The Fisher King, and the Dissonance of DiasporaNoteWorks Cited

     

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  2. Stagolee shot Billy
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass

    "This story was never meant to by sandwiched between the covers of a book, as neat lines of prose. In 1895 a man called "Stag" Lee Shelton shot a man called Billy Lyons in a St. Louis bar. A black-on-black crime that scarcely made headlines. But this... more

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    "This story was never meant to by sandwiched between the covers of a book, as neat lines of prose. In 1895 a man called "Stag" Lee Shelton shot a man called Billy Lyons in a St. Louis bar. A black-on-black crime that scarcely made headlines. But this story, turned into a song, is one that black Americans have never tired of repeating and reliving. This tale of dignity and death, violence and sex, has been given countless forms by artists ranging from Ma Rainey to the Clash." "Billy died because he touched another man's five-dollar Stetson. Or was it because he cheated at a card game? Or was it because the antagonists straddled the great American fault line of race at the time the earth was shifting - at the time a strange, almost conspiratorial war was raging in St. Louis between traditional black Republicans and a renegade faction aligned with the traditionally racist Democratic party? A small portion of this story has been told again and again, generation after generation, but few, till now have known what the whole story was." "Novelist and scholar Cecil Brown explores this legend from what was in those days the second city of America, gateway between East and West and North and South: St. Louis. Though bits of actual history have been associated with the song, the true story - told in its entirety for the first time in this book - is more complex, more deeply rooted, than anything anyone would ever dare to invent. It tells of the first generation of free black men, crushed by a Genteel America that was both black and white. It tells of the wild place this country was in the nineteenth century - so wild that the inhabitants of the twentieth century could take it only in small doses and needed to forget. Now it can be told in full."--Jacket Stagolee shot Billy -- Lee Shelton : the man behind the myth -- That bad pimp of old St. Louis : the oral poetry of the late 1890s -- "Poor Billy Lyons" -- Narrative events and narrated events -- Stagolee and politics -- Under the lid : the underside of the political struggle -- The Black social clubs -- Hats and nicknames : symbolic values -- Ragtime and Stagolee -- The blues and Stagolee -- Jim Crow and oral narrative -- Riverboat rouster and mean mate -- Work camps, hoboes, and shack bully hollers -- William Marion Reedy's white outlaw -- Cowboy Stagolee and hillbilly blues -- Blueswomen : Stagolee did them wrong -- Bluesmen and Black bad man -- On the trail of sinful Stagolee -- Stagolee in a world full of trouble -- From rhythm and blues to rock and roll : "I heard my bulldog bark" -- The toast : bad Black hero of the Black revolution -- Folklore/poplore : Bob Dylan's Stagolee -- The "bad nigger" trope in American literature -- James Baldwin's "Staggerlee wonders" -- Stagolee as cultural and political hero -- Stagolee and modernism.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674028906; 0674028902
    Subjects: African Americans; Ballads, English; Literature and folklore; African American criminals; African American men; African Americans; Stagolee (Legendary character); African American men in literature; Ballads, English; Literature and folklore; African American criminals; African Americans; African American men; African Americans; Literature and folklore; African American criminals; African American men in literature; African American men; African Americans; Ballads, English; African Americans; Stagolee (Legendary character); African American men; African Americans; African Americans ; Music; Ballads, English; African American men in literature; Literature and folklore; Stagolee (Legendary character); Liederen; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General; African American criminals; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Folklore
    Scope: Online Ressource (viii, 296 p.), ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-285) and index. - Description based on print version record

    Stagolee shot BillyLee Shelton : the man behind the myth -- That bad pimp of old St. Louis : the oral poetry of the late 1890s -- "Poor Billy Lyons" -- Narrative events and narrated events -- Stagolee and politics -- Under the lid : the underside of the political struggle -- The Black social clubs -- Hats and nicknames : symbolic values -- Ragtime and Stagolee -- The blues and Stagolee -- Jim Crow and oral narrative -- Riverboat rouster and mean mate -- Work camps, hoboes, and shack bully hollers -- William Marion Reedy's white outlaw -- Cowboy Stagolee and hillbilly blues -- Blueswomen : Stagolee did them wrong -- Bluesmen and Black bad man -- On the trail of sinful Stagolee -- Stagolee in a world full of trouble -- From rhythm and blues to rock and roll : "I heard my bulldog bark" -- The toast : bad Black hero of the Black revolution -- Folklore/poplore : Bob Dylan's Stagolee -- The "bad nigger" trope in American literature -- James Baldwin's "Staggerlee wonders" -- Stagolee as cultural and political hero -- Stagolee and modernism.

  3. Black Orpheus
    music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Garland Pub, New York

    In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its power as a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations of music more

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    In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its power as a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations of music

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780815331230; 0815331231; 0203904419; 9780203904411; 9780203904404; 0203904400
    Series: Array ; Array
    Subjects: American fiction; American fiction; Music and literature; African Americans; Musical fiction; Roman américain; Roman américain; Musique et littérature; Noirs américains; Musiciens noirs américains dans la littérature; Noirs américains dans la littérature; Musique dans la littérature; African American musicians in literature; African Americans in literature; Music in literature; Music and literature; African Americans; Musical fiction; American fiction; American fiction; African American musicians in literature; African Americans in literature; Music in literature; American fiction; Music and literature; Musical fiction; American fiction; African Americans; Electronic books; African Americans in literature; African Americans ; Music; American fiction; American fiction ; African American authors; Music and literature; Music in literature; Musical fiction; Literatur; Musik; Aufsatzsammlung; Schwarze; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General; African American musicians in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Scope: Online Ressource (xxviii, 275 p.), music.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record

    Series editor's foreword / Daniel AlbrightIntroduction: the agency of sound in African American fiction / Saadi A. Simawe -- Singing the unsayable: theorizing music in Dessa Rose / Jacquelyn A. Fox-Good -- Claude McKay: music, sexuality, and literary cosmopolitanism / Tom Lutz -- Black moves, white way, every body's blues: orphic power in Langston Hughes's The ways of white folks / Jane Olmsted -- Black and blue: the female body of blues writing in Jean Toomer, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones / Katherine Boutry -- That old black magic? Gender and music in Ann Petry's fiction / Johanna X.K. Garvey -- "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing": jazz's many uses for Toni Morrison / Alan J. Rice -- Shange and her three sisters "sing a liberation song": variations on the orphic theme / Maria V. Johnson -- Nathaniel Mackey's unit structures / Joseph Allen -- Shamans of song: music and the politics of culture in Alice Walker's early fiction / Saadi A. Simawe.