The grey album : on the blackness of blackness / Kevin Young.
Young, Kevin, 1970-
2012
NX512.3.A35 Y68 2012 (Mapit)
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Title The grey album : on the blackness of blackness / Kevin Young.
Author Young, Kevin, 1970-
ISBN 9781555976071 (pbk.)
1555976077 (pbk.)
Imprint Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 483 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number NX512.3.A35 Y68 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 814.54
Summary "Taking its title from Danger Mouse's pioneering mash-up of Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles' The White Album, Kevin Young's encyclopedic book combines essay, cultural criticism, and lyrical chorus to illustrate the African American tradition of lying--telling tales, fibbing, improvising, jazzing up, "storying." What emerges is a persuasive argument for the many ways that African American culture is American culture, and for the centrality of art--and artfulness--to our daily lives. Moving from gospel to soul, funk to freestyle, Young shifts through the shadows, the bootleg, the remix--all the grey areas of our history, literature, and music."--P. [4] of cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, 2010.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Overture
bk. 1. Elsewhere. The shadow book
How not to be a slave : on the Black art of escape
Chorus one : steal away : slavery and its discontents
bk. 2. Strange fruit. Broken tongue : Paul Laurence Dunbar, his descendants, and the dance of dialect
Chorus two : it don't mean a thing : the blues mask of modernism
"If you can't read, run anyhow!" : Langston Hughes and the poetics of refusal
bk. 3. Heaven is Negro. Chorus three : ugly beauty : postmodernism and all that jazz
Broken giraffe : Bob Kaufman, the song, and the silence
Chorus four : moanin' : soul music and the power of pleasure
bk. 4. Cosmic slop. Interstellar space : toward a post-soul poetics
Final chorus : Planet Rock : the end of the record: The third coming ; 100 guns ; 36 chambers ; 99 problems
Deadism.

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