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Lying up a nation : race and Black music

"Lying up a nation" traces the evolution of black music from the time of slavery to the modern era, showing how its history has always been dependent on the interplay of races.
Print Book, English, 2003
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xix, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226701974, 9780226701981, 0226701972, 0226701980
51511227
Telling stories, telling lies : revisionist listening and the writing of music history
Resonances of racial absence : Black sounding practices prior to "Negro music"
First truth, second hearing : audible encounters in antebellum Black and White
Magical writing : the iconic wonders of the slave spiritual
Of bodies and souls : feeling the pulse of modern race music
Epilogue : a nation's gift
נושא ישן: African Americans - Music - History and criticism
נושא ישן: Music - United States - history and criticism