Lying up a nation : race and Black music /
Radano, Ronald Michael.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
c2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Telling stories, telling lies : revisionist listening and the writing of music history -- Resonances of racial absence : Black sounding practices prior to "Negro music" -- First truth, second hearing : audible encounters in antebellum Black and White -- Magical writing : the iconic wonders of the slave spiritual -- Of bodies and souls : feeling the pulse of modern race music -- Epilogue : a nation's gift.
African Americans
Music