Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Overture: rites of reparation
- Chapter 1 Repetition/reproduction: the DNA of black expressive culture
- Chapter 2 Recuperating black diasporic history
- Chapter 3 Reenacting the Harlem Renaissance
- Chapter 4 Resisting shame and offering praise and worship
- Chapter 5 Resisting death: the blues bravado of a ghost
- Chapter 6 Rituals of repair
- Chapter 7 Reconstitution
- Epilogue Black movements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Overture: rites of reparation
- Chapter 1 Repetition/reproduction: the DNA of black expressive culture
- Chapter 2 Recuperating black diasporic history
- Chapter 3 Reenacting the Harlem Renaissance
- Chapter 4 Resisting shame and offering praise and worship
- Chapter 5 Resisting death: the blues bravado of a ghost
- Chapter 6 Rituals of repair
- Chapter 7 Reconstitution
- Epilogue Black movements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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