This is how we flow : rhythm in Black cultures / edited by Angela M.S. Nelson

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Contents: Rap on rhythm / Juliette Bowles -- Jazz time and our time: a view from the outside in / Mark Sumner Harvey -- Some aesthetic suggestions for a working theory of the "undeniable groove": how do we speak about Black rhythm, setting text, and composition? / William Banfield -- Rhythm and rhyme in rap / Angela M. S. Nelson -- The music of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Richard Lischer -- Rhythm in Claude McKay's "Harlem dancer" / Ronald Dorris -- Chanting down Babylon: three Rastafarian dub poets / Darren J. N. Middleton -- Rhythm as modality and discourse in Daughters of the dust / D. Soyini Madison -- Rhythms of resistance: the role of freedom song in South Africa / Alton B. Pollard Iii -- The rhythm of everyday politics: public performance and political transitions in Mali / Zeric Kay Smith

Topic: African Americans; Blacks; Rhythm; American literature--African American authors--History and criticism; African American aesthetics; Aesthetics, Black; African American arts; Arts, Black