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1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures
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University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
This Music Demanded Action : Ellison, Armstrong, and the Imperatives of Jazz -- We Are All a Collage : Armstrong's Operatic Blues, Bearden's Black Odyssey, and Morrison's Jazz -- The "Open Corner" of Black Community and Creativity : From Romare Bearden to Duke Ellington and Toni Morrison -- Hare and Bear : The Racial Profiles of Satchmo's Smile -- The White Trombone and the Unruly Black Cosmopolitan Trumpet, or How Paris Blues Came to Be Unfinished |
| Summary |
"Ralph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as "antagonistic cooperation." Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with and against one another to create art and community. In Antagonistic Cooperation, Robert G. O'Meally shows how this idea runs throughout twentieth-century African American culture to provide a new history of Black creativity and aesthetics. From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, O'Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and literature have informed one another. He argues that these artists drew on the improvisatory nature of jazz and the techniques of collage not as a way to depict a fractured or broken sense of Blackness but rather to see the Black self as beautifully layered and complex. They developed a shared set of methods and motives driven by the belief that art must involve a sense of community. O'Meally's readings of these artists and their work emphasize how they have not only contributed to understanding of Black history and culture but also provided hope for fulfilling the broken promises of American democracy"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
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Jazz -- History and criticism.
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Jazz. |
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African American art.
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African American art. |
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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African Americans -- Social life and customs.
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African Americans -- Social life and customs. |
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Music and literature.
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Art and music.
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Collage.
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Music and literature. |
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Art and music. |
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collage (technique) |
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Collage. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African-American. |
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Lecture.
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lectures.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Lectures.
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Lectures.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: O'Meally, Robert G., 1948- Antagonistic cooperation. New York : Columbia University Press, 2022 9780231189187 (DLC) 2021022525 (OCoLC)1253443411 |
| ISBN |
9780231548212 electronic book |
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0231548214 electronic book |
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9780231189187 hardcover |
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9780231189194 paperback |
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