Includes bibliographical references (p.[161]-164).
Contents:
George Washington Harris : the emergence of the blues from behind Sut's tragic/comic mask -- Charles Chesnutt : the dialectic of cultural transformation -- Zora Neale Hurston : from the jook to the juke box -- Lewis Nordan : riffing on memory and playing through the breaks.
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