“…She makes lyrical forays into the blues pioneers BessieSmith and Mamie Smith, as well as fans who became critics, like the record-label entrepreneur and writer Rosetta Reitz. …”
Sisällysluettelo:
“…Introduction: Black resonance -- Vivid lyricism: Richard Wright and BessieSmith's blues -- The timbre of sincerity: Mahalia Jackson's gospel sound and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- Understatement: James Baldwin, BessieSmith, and Billie Holiday -- Haunting: Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit' -- Signature voices: Nikki Giovanni, Aretha Franklin, and the Black Arts movement -- Epilogue: 'At Last': Etta James, poetry, hip hop…”
Sisällysluettelo:
“…: autobiographies, archives, and amnesia : Sutapa Biswas, Chila Kumari Burman, Vanley Burke-Roshini Kempadoo -- "I was branded" : spectacularized histories, serial narratives, and illicit iconographies : Steve McQueen, Hew Locke, Godfried Donkor, Hank Willis Thomas -- "Power to the powerless" : tracing black lives in protest portraits, history paintings, and radical installations : Barbara Walker, Kimathi Donkor, Mary Evans, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye -- "Hurting to death" : struggle, survival, and storytelling in salvaged objects, paint, beads, and steel : Lonnie Holley, Bessie Harvey, Sokari Douglas Camp, Joyce J. Scott -- Conclusion : "survivors of the diasporic journey" : past, present, and future artists and art-making traditions : Deborah Willis, Gurminder Sikand, Mona Hatoum, Zarina Bhimji, Yinka Shonibare, Hurvin Anderson, Tom Price, Larry Achiampong, Nicola Frimpong…”
Sisällysluettelo:
“…Gass -- from Citizen / Claudia Rankine -- Finitude : From The Permanent Collection / Jonathan Safran Foer -- Say: "Parsley" (Online) / Caroline Bergvall -- Reduced / David Foster Wallace -- Altmann's Tongue (Online) ; House Rules / Brian Evenson -- Brevity / Deb Olin Unferth -- Some Machines / Lucy Corin -- from The Book Of Beginnings And Endings / Jenny Boully -- The Chronology Of Water / Lidia Yuknavitch -- Draft 95 ; Erg / Rachel Blau Duplessis -- Confluence / Percival Everett -- The Wavemaker Falters / George Saunders -- The Return Of The Dark Children / Robert Coover -- from Meadow Slasher / Joshua Marie Wilkinson -- The Reader / Steven Ross Smith -- 3. Writing Technologies/Digital Wor(L)Ds -- from Autosummarize / Jason Huff -- Dakota (Online) ; Nippon (Online) / Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries -- The Boat (Online) / Nam Le With Matt Huynh, Kylie Boltin, and Matt Smith -- What We Will (Online) / John Cayley with Douglas Cape and Giles Perring -- High Muckamuck (Online) / The High Muck A Muck Collective Including Fred Wah, Jin Zhang, Nicola Harwood, Thomas Loh, and Bessie Wapp -- The Yellow Pages (Online) / Charles Bernstein -- Liberty Ring! …”
Sisällysluettelo:
“…BONUS TRACKS: Endless highway (early studio take) ; When I paint my masterpiece (alternate take) ; 4% pantomime (takes 1 & 2) ; Don’t do it (outtake, studio version) ; BessieSmith (outtake). CD2. LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA THEATRE, PARIS, MAY 1971: The W.S. …”