Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Series Editor’s Foreword xi
• Introduction xix
• Chapter 1 - Singing the Unsayable 1
• Chapter 2 - Claude Mckay 41
• Works Cited 63
• Chapter 3 - Black Moves, White Ways, Every Body’s Blues 65
• Chapter 4 - Black and Blue 91
• Chapter 5 - That Old Black Magic? 119
• Chapter 6 - It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing 153
• Works Cited 178
• Chapter 7 - Shange and Her Three Sisters “sing a Liberation Song” 181
• Works Cited 203
• Chapter 8 - Nathaniel Mackey’s Unit Structures 205

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Series Editor’s Foreword xi
• Introduction xix
• Chapter 1 - Singing the Unsayable 1
• Chapter 2 - Claude Mckay 41
• Works Cited 63
• Chapter 3 - Black Moves, White Ways, Every Body’s Blues 65
• Chapter 4 - Black and Blue 91
• Chapter 5 - That Old Black Magic? 119
• Chapter 6 - It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing 153
• Works Cited 178
• Chapter 7 - Shange and Her Three Sisters “sing a Liberation Song” 181
• Works Cited 203
• Chapter 8 - Nathaniel Mackey’s Unit Structures 205
• Works Cited 227
• Chapter 9 - Shamans of Song 231
• Index of Names 273