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In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition
In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical TraditionIn The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition

In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition

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PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
Copyright HolderThe Regents of the University of Minnesota
Cover/Jacket Design byBrian Donahue
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About/SubjectJazz, African Americans, Radicalism, Aesthetics
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationMinneapolis, London
First Printing2003
Copyright2003
Pages / Fontxii, 315 pages
Barcode9780816641000
ISBN0-8166-4100-5
ChaptersAcknowledgements xi Resistance of the object: Aunt Hester's scream 1 1 The sentimental avant-garde - Duke Ellington's sound of love 25 - Voices/forces 31 - Sound in florescence (Cecil Taylor floating garden) 41 - Praying with Eric 63 2 In the break - Tragedy, elegy 85 - The dark lady and the sexual cut 102 - German inversion 122 - 'Round the Five Spot 149 3 Visible music - Baldwin's Baraka, his mirror stage, the sound of his gaze 171 - Black Mo'nin' in the sound of the photograph 192 - Tonality of totality 211 Resistance of the object: Adrian Piper's theatricality 233 Notes 255 Index 307
NotesPrinted in the United States of America
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