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Listening for Africa : freedom, modernity, and the logic of Black music's African origins /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: García, David F. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
Blacks > Music > History and criticism.
Dance music > History and criticism.
Music > Africa > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Analyzing the African origins of Negro music and dance in a time of racism, fascism, and war
  • Listening to Africa in the city, in the laboratory, and on record
  • Embodying Africa against racial oppression, ignorance, and colonialism
  • Disalienating movement and sound from the pathologies of freedom and time
  • Desiring Africa, or Western civilization's discontents
  • Conclusion: dance-music as rhizome.