Lying up a Nation
Race and Black Music
440 pages, 2 halftones, 4 line drawings, 26 musical examples 6 x 9
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2003
Cloth $81.00
ISBN: 9780226701974
Published November 2003
Paper $30.00
ISBN: 9780226701981
Published November 2003
Contents List of Illustrations Preface 1. Telling Stories, Telling Lies Revisionist Listening and the Writing of Music History 2. Resonances of Racial Absence Black Sounding Practices Prior to "Negro Music" 3. First Truth, Second Hearing Audible Encounters in Antebellum Black and White 4. Magical Writing The Iconic Wonders of the Slave Spiritual 5. Of Bodies and Souls Feeling the Pulse of Modern Race Music Epilogue- A Nation's Gift Notes Index
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