Don't Deny My Name
Subtitle: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition
Contributors: Aldon Lynn Nielsen (Editor)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: May 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780472068920
Subjects: Ethnic; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; Social Science / African-American Studies; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; African Americans; Blues (Music); History and criticism; Jazz; Music; Sociology
Description: Don't Deny My Name (which takes its title from a blues song) begins by laying out the case for the blues as constituting a body of literature, one that confronts the situation of African American migrants to the urban North and newer territories to the West. The essays that follow collectively provide a tour of the movement through classic jazz, bop, and the explosions of the free jazz era, followed by a section on R & B and Soul. The collection ends with a polemical essay about the hip hop phenomenon.