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Author Pavlic, Edward M. (Edward Michael), author.

Title Who can afford to improvise? : James Baldwin and black music, the lyric and the listeners / Ed Pavlic.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2016.

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Contents Front ; Contents; Introduction; "Not the country we're sitting in now"; Blues Constants, Jazz Changes; "Making words; Billie Holiday: Radical Lyricist; Dinah Washington's Blues and the Trans- Digressive Ocean; "But Amen is the price"; On Camden Row; Speechless in San Francisco; "In a way they must . . ."; "Shades cannot be fixed"; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation.
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Music.
Music and literature -- United States.
Music and literature.
United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Pavlic, Ed. Who Can Afford to Improvise? : James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners. Bronx : Fordham University Press, ©2015 9780823268481
ISBN 9780823268511 (electronic book)
0823268519 (electronic book)
9780823268504 (electronic book)
0823268500 (electronic book)
9780823268481 (cloth ; alkaline paper)