In this paean to legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday, author Farah Jasmine Griffin attempts to debunk the myths that swirl around Holiday's alleged history. In doing so, she challenges the previously published works of other biographers, including William Dufty who claims to have helped Holiday write her autobiography, LADY SINGS THE BLUES.
Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centres in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American cultural production. Griffin takes ...
Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music to define - it is a culture. Considering musicians ...
A rich collection of memoirs, diaries, letters, lectures, and fiction excerpts by various explorers, missionaries, statesmen, and writers, that illuminate the experience of African-American travel to all parts of the globe.
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