Black music, Black poetry : blues and jazz's impact on African American versification /

Table of Contents: “…Lyricism and the sonic aesthetic -- Amiri Baraka: phenomenologist of jazz spirit/ Christopher Winks -- Nathaniel Mackey's "Song of the andoumboulou": making different music/ Scarlett Higgins -- Hearing a new musical instrument: Harryette Mullen's critical lyricism/ Lisa Mansell -- Part 4. Transformational lyricism -- "Taking it out!"…”

Sounds of modern history : auditory cultures in 19th- and 20th- century Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Auditory cultures in the interwar period -- In storms of steel : the soundscape of World War I and its impact on auditory media culture during the Weimar period / Axel Volmar -- Sound aesthetics and the global imagination in German media culture around 1930 / Carolyn Birdsall -- Neurasthenia, civilization and the sounds of modern life : narratives of nervous illness in the interwar campaign against noise / James Mansell -- Part VII. The sounds of World War II -- The silence of Amsterdam before and during World War II : ecology, semiotics and politics of urban sound / Annelies jacobs -- Notes on contributors.…”
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