This is how we flow
Subtitle: rhythm in Black cultures
By: edited by Angela M.S. Nelson.
Contributors: Nelson, Angela M. S., 1964-
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: African Americans; Blacks; Rhythm; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life; African Americans in literature; African American aesthetics; Aesthetics, Black; African American arts; Arts, Black
Description: "This is How We Flow" explores the meaning, motif, and theme of rhythm in black cultures throughout the United States and Africa. In ten essays the volumes contributors illustrate how rhythm is the foundation of all African expression - from music and dance to the visual arts, architecture, theater, literature, and film. They suggest, by example, that an African aesthetic does indeed exist, an aesthetic that revolves around the motif of rhythm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-152) and index.
Table of contents: title: Rap on rhythm / Juliette Bowles; title: Jazz time and our time: a view from the outside in / Mark Sumner Harvey; title: Some aesthetic suggestions for a working theory of the "undeniable groove": how do we speak about Black rhythm, setting text, and composition? / William Banfield; title: Rhythm and rhyme in rap / Angela M. S. Nelson; title: The music of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Richard Lischer; title: Rhythm in Claude McKay's "Harlem dancer" / Ronald Dorris; title: Chanting down Babylon: three Rastafarian dub poets / Darren J. N. Middleton; title: Rhythm as modality and discourse in Daughters of the dust / D. Soyini Madison; title: Rhythms of resistance: the role of freedom song in South Africa / Alton B. Pollard Iii; title: The rhythm of everyday politics: public performance and political transitions in Mali / Zeric Kay Smith.