In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical TraditionU of Minnesota Press, 2003 M04 9 - 332 páginas Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics Stylistically brilliant and challenging, much like the music he writes about, Moten’s wide-ranging discussion embraces a variety of disciplines—semiotics, deconstruction, genre theory, social history, and psychoanalysis—to understand the politicized sexuality, particularly homoeroticism, underpinning black radicalism. In the Break is the inaugural volume in Moten’s ambitious intellectual project-to establish an aesthetic genealogy of the black radical tradition |
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... songs , revealing at once the highest joy and the deepest sadness . They would compose and sing as they went along , consulting neither time nor tune . The thought that came up , came out — if not in the word , in the sound ; —and as ...
... songs , even now , afflicts me ; and while I am writing these lines , an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek . To those songs I trace my first glimmering con- ception of the dehumanizing character of slavery ...
... song . The revolution embedded in such duration is , for a moment , a run of questions : What is the edge of this event ? What am I , the object ? What is the music ? What is manhood ? What is the feminine ? What is the beautiful ? What ...
... song ; you can't sing jazz / When Bird was around he knew he wasn't playing jazz . He was playing his spirit . And I think that's the problem for a lot of the musicians on the scene now . They think that they're playing jazz . But ...
... song called " Lush Life " among a good bit of other compositions he'd penned in his home- town of Pittsburgh , arrives in Harlem around 1940 , roughly a decade after Delaney exited the train from Boston there before quickly moving down ...
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Praying with Eric | 63 |
Tragedy Elegy | 85 |
The Dark Lady and the Sexual Cut | 102 |
German Inversion | 122 |
Round the Five Spot | 149 |
Baldwins Baraka His Mirror Stage the Sound of His Gaze | 171 |
Black Monin in the Sound of the Photograph | 192 |
Tonality of Totality | 211 |
Adrian Pipers Theatricality | 233 |
Notes | 255 |
Index | 307 |
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