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Authenticity in Black music and poetry

Original rags: African-American secular music and the cultural legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry/ Ray Sapirstein

Paul Laurence Dunbar and the spirituals/ Lauri Ramey

"Greatest is the song": blues as poetic communication in early Langston Hughes and Sterling A. Brown/ John Edgar Tidwell

"A real, solid, sane, racial something": Langston Hughes's blues poetry/ David Chinitz

Part 2. Jazz: its spiritual lyricism

The funk aesthetic in African-American poetry/ Tony Bolden

"Go in the wilderness": the missionary impulse of Michael Harper's poetry/ Joseph Brown

Part 3. Lyricism and the sonic aesthetic

Amiri Baraka: phenomenologist of jazz spirit/ Christopher Winks

Nathaniel Mackey's "Song of the andoumboulou": making different music/ Scarlett Higgins

Hearing a new musical instrument: Harryette Mullen's critical lyricism/ Lisa Mansell

Part 4. Transformational lyricism

"Taking it out!": Jayne Cortez's collaborations with the firespitters/ Renee M. Kingan

Pops, pygmies, and pentecostal fire: Sanders and Thomas's "The creator has a master plan"/

Michael Coyle.

American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism.

English language > Rhythm.

African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.