James Weldon Johnson's Modern Soundscapes
By: Noelle Morrissette
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781609381585; 9781609381592
Subjects: Music in literature; Intellectual life; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Ragtime Reinventions of James Weldon (William) Johnson; title: Biography of the Race: Musical Comedy and the Modern Soundscape of the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man; title: Cultures of Talk: Diplomacy, Nation, and Race in the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man; title: The Interpolated Body: Passing, Same-sex Talk, and Discursive Formations in the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man; title: Cosmopolitan Travels: Diplomacy, Translation, and Performance in the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Der Weisse Neger, 1928) and God's Trombones; title: Framing Black Expressive Culture: Prefaces to the Book of American Negro Poetry, the Book of American Negro Spirituals, and God's Trombones; title: "The Creation": God's Trombones and Johnson's Formation of a Black Modernist Poetics; title: From Noun to Verb: Black Phonographic Voice in Black Manhattan; title: Not the Story of My Life: Along This Way; title: Afterword: Remembering James Weldon Johnson.