In the break : the aesthetics of the Black radical tradition
by
 
Moten, Fred.

Title
In the break : the aesthetics of the Black radical tradition

Author
Moten, Fred.

ISBN
9780816640997
 
9780816641000

Personal Author
Moten, Fred.

Publication Information
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.

Physical Description
xii, 315 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents
Resistance of the Object: Aunt Hester's Scream -- 1. The Sentimental Avant-Garde -- Duke Ellington's Sound of Love -- Voices/Forces -- Sound in Florescence (Cecil Taylor Floating Garden) -- Praying with Eric -- 2. In the Break -- Tragedy, Elegy -- The Dark Lady and the Sexual Cut -- German Inversion -- 'Round the Five Spot -- 3. Visible Music -- Baldwin's Baraka, His Mirror Stage, the Sound of His Gaze -- Black Mo'nin' in the Sound of the Photograph -- Tonality of Totality -- Resistance of the Object: Adrian Piper's Theatricality.

Subject Term
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
 
African Americans -- Politics and government.
 
Radicalism -- United States.
 
African American aesthetics.
 
African American arts.
 
Arts -- Political aspects -- United States.


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