Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-323) and index.
Contents
"Unvoiced longings": Du Bois and the "sorrow songs" -- Swan songs and art songs: the spirituals and the "new Negro" in the 1920s -- "The twilight of aestheticism": Locke on cosmopolitanism and musical evolution -- "Beneath the seeming informality": Hughes, Hurston, and the politics of form -- Saving jazz from its friends: the predicament of jazz criticism in the swing era.