{"product_id":"crossovers-essays-on-race-music-and-american-culture-paperback-softback-9780812219722","title":"Crossovers; Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812219722","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCrossovers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on Race, Music, and American Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Szwed (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812219722\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 October 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this collection of thirty-one short articles, essays, and reviews written over a thirty-six-year period, John Szwed consistently displays the extraordinary imagination and ingenuity that have made him one of the most respected scholars in African-American and Afro-diasporic Studies. \u003ci\u003eCrossovers\u003c\/i\u003e is both a revealing intellectual history of Szwed's development as a scholar and critic, and a unified and integrated argument on behalf of the aesthetic, moral, and political genius of the African diaspora.\"-George Lipsitz, \u003ci\u003eH-Urban\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging across genres from the popular to the scholarly, this selection of John Szwed's published essays abides in the intersection of race and art, jazz and rap: crossovers inside and outside the academy. With reviews written for the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e and articles from academic journals, this volume includes essays, commentary, and meditations on James Agee and Walker Evans, Cuban folklorist Lydia Cabrera, Lafcadio Hearn, Melville Herskovits, Josef Skorvecky, Patrick Chamoiseau, pop song writer Ellie Greenwich, and jazz musicians Sonny Rollins, Anthony Braxton, Sun Ra, and Ornette Coleman. Also included are pieces on the prehistory of hip hop, the blues, popular dance instruction songs, tap dance, and African American set dancing; creole writing and creolization; race and culture; and authenticity, representation, nostalgia, and obscenity in American popular culture, with excursions into jazz in Africa, Russia, and Argentina.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten about a country with cultural crossroads everywhere, where the question of race is thoroughly woven into the fabric of society, these essays cross boundaries and shed light on the complexities of American life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Musical style and racial conflict\u003cbr\u003e 3. Musical adaptation among Afro-Americans\u003cbr\u003e 4. An American anthropological dilemma: the politics of Afro-American culture\u003cbr\u003e 5. Reconsideration: the myth of the Negro past\u003cbr\u003e 6. Reconsideration: Lafcadio Hearn in Cincinnati\u003cbr\u003e 7. The forest as moral document: the achievement of Lydia Cabrera\u003cbr\u003e 8. Race and the embodiment of culture\u003cbr\u003e 9. After the myth: studying Afro-American cultural patterns in the plantation literature\u003cbr\u003e 10. Speaking people, in their own terms\u003cbr\u003e 11. The lizards fake the fake\u003cbr\u003e 12. As it is prophesied, so it used to be\u003cbr\u003e 13. Greenwich's good gnosis\u003cbr\u003e 14. Free samples: Roy Nathanson and Anthony Coleman\u003cbr\u003e 15. Milling at the mall\u003cbr\u003e 16. Childhood's ends\u003cbr\u003e 17. Sweet feet\u003cbr\u003e 18. From \"Messin' around\" to \"Funky western civilization\": the rise and fall of dance instruction songs\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Afro-American transformation of European set dances and dance suites\u003cbr\u003e 20. All that beef, and symbolic action, too! : notes on the occasion of the banning of 2 Live Crew's As nasty as they wanna be\u003cbr\u003e 21. The real old school\u003cbr\u003e 22. Josef Skvorecky and the tradition of jazz literature\u003cbr\u003e 23. World views collide: the history of jazz and hot dance\u003cbr\u003e 24. Way down yonder in Buenos Aires\u003cbr\u003e 25. Improvising under apartheid: Afro blue\u003cbr\u003e 26. Sonny Rollins in the age of mechanical reproduction\u003cbr\u003e 27. Sun Ra, 1914-1993\u003cbr\u003e 28. Ornette Coleman: ?civilization\u003cbr\u003e 29. The local and the express: Anthony Braxton's title-drawings\u003cbr\u003e 30. Magnificent declension: Solibo magnificent\u003cbr\u003e 31. 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