Alive in the sound : Black music as counterhistory /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Radano, Ronald Michael (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
Series:	Refiguring American music
Subjects:	African Americans > Music > History and criticism. Music > United States > History and criticism. Music and race > United States. Black people > Race identity > United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Black Labor, Value, and the Anomalies of Enlivened Sound
First Metamorphosis: Property's Properties of Reconstructive Possibility
Slave Labor and the Emergence of a Peculiar Music
Second Metamorphosis: Free Labor and the Racial-Economic Transaction of Animated Form
Scabrous Sounds of a Vagrant Proletariat
Minstrelsy's Incredible Corporealities
Third Metamorphosis: Contests of Ownership in Early National Markets
Ragtime's Double-Time Accumulation
New Coalescences of Spectacular Form: Stride Piano and Ragtime Piano Rolls
Commodity Circuits and the Making of a Jazz Counterhistory
Fourth Metamorphosis: Racialized Embodiments of Hypercapitalized Pop
Swing: Black Music's New Modern Becoming
Living Forms, Imagined Truths: Aesthetic Breakthroughs in Jazz at Mid-Century
Apotheosis of a New Black Music
Afterword: Modernity's Ghosts.