Crossovers Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture John Szwed
"In this collection of thirty-one short articles, essays, and
reviews written over a thirty-six-year period, John Szwed
consistently displays the extraordinary imagination and ingenuity
that have made him one of the most respected scholars in
African-American and Afro-diasporic Studies. "Crossovers" is both a
revealing intellectual history of Szwed's development as a scholar
and critic, and a unified and integrated argument on behalf of the
aesthetic, moral, and political genius of the African
diaspora."--George Lipsitz, "H-Urban" Ranging across genres from
the popular to the scholarly, this selection of John Szwed's
published essays abides in the intersection of race and art, jazz
and rap: crossovers inside and outside the academy. With reviews
written for the "Village Voice" and articles from academic
journals, this volume includes essays, commentary, and meditations
on James Agee and Walker Evans, Cuban folklorist Lydia Cabrera,
Lafcadio Hearn, Melville Herskovits, Josef Skorvecky, Patrick
Chamoiseau, pop song writer Ellie Greenwich, and jazz musicians
Sonny Rollins, Anthony Braxton, Sun Ra, and Ornette Coleman. Also
included are pieces on the prehistory of hip hop, the blues,
popular dance instruction songs, tap dance, and African American
set dancing; creole writing and creolization; race and culture; and
authenticity, representation, nostalgia, and obscenity in American
popular culture, with excursions into jazz in Africa, Russia, and
Argentina. Written about a country with cultural crossroads
everywhere, where the question of race is thoroughly woven into the
fabric of society, these essays cross boundaries and shed light on
the complexities of American life. John Szwed is John M. Musser
Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Yale
University. He is the author of numerous books, including "So What:
The Life of Miles Davis" and "Space Is the Place: The Lives and
Times of Sun Ra," and coauthor (with Roger D. Abrahams, Nick
Spitzer, and Robert Farris Thompson) of "Blues for New Orleans:
Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul," also available from the
University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005 296 pages 6 x 9 ISBN
978-0-8122-1972-2 Paper $26.50s 17.50 World Rights Anthropology,
African-American/African Studies, Film/Media Studies, Cultural
Studies Short copy: "Crossovers" brings together four decades of
popular and academic writings by folklorist, anthropologist, and
jazz scholar John Szwed.
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