Introduction : who hears here now?
Cosmopolitan or provincial? : ideology in early black music historiography, 1867-1940
Who hears here? : black music, critical bias, and the musicological skin trade
The pot liquor principle : developing a black music criticism in American music studies
Secrets, lies and transcriptions : new revisions on race, black music and culture
Muzing new hoods, making new identities : film, hip-hop culture, and jazz music
Afro-Modernism and music : on science, community, and magic in the Black Avant-Garde
Bebop, jazz manhood and "piano shame"
Blues and the ethnographic truth
Time is illmatic : a song for my father, a letter to my son
A new kind of blue : the power of suggestion and the pleasure of groove in Robert Glasper's black radio
Free jazz and the price of black musical abstraction
Jack Whitten's musical eye
Out of place and out of line : Jason Moran's eclecticism as critical inquiry
African American music
Onward : an afterword by Shana L. Redmond.