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This is how we flow : rhythm in Black cultures
Title:
This is how we flow : rhythm in Black cultures
Author:
Nelson, Angela M. S., 1964-
Publication Information:
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [1999]

©1999
Physical Description:
vi, 160 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Rap on rhythm / Juliette Bowles -- Jazz time and our time: a view from the outside in / Mark Sumner Harvey -- Some aesthetic suggestions for a working theory of the "undeniable groove": how do we speak about Black rhythm, setting text, and composition? / William Banfield -- Rhythm and rhyme in rap / Angela M. S. Nelson -- The music of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Richard Lischer -- Rhythm in Claude McKay's "Harlem dancer" / Ronald Dorris -- Chanting down Babylon: three Rastafarian dub poets / Darren J. N. Middleton -- Rhythm as modality and discourse in Daughters of the dust / D. Soyini Madison -- Rhythms of resistance: the role of freedom song in South Africa / Alton B. Pollard III -- The rhythm of everyday politics: public performance and political transitions in Mali / Zeric Kay Smith.
ISBN:
9781570031908
Format :
Book