Four. ‘‘Beneath the Seeming Informality’’: Hughes, Hurston, and the Politics of Form

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. One. ‘‘Unvoiced Longings’’: Du Bois and the ‘‘Sorrow Songs’’ 13
6. Two. Swan Songs and Art Songs: The Spirituals and the ‘‘New Negro’’ in the 1920s 59
7. Three. ‘‘The Twilight of Aestheticism’’: Locke on Cosmopolitanism and Musical Evolution 113
8. Four. ‘‘Beneath the Seeming Informality’’: Hughes, Hurston, and the Politics of Form 167
9. Five. Saving Jazz from Its Friends: The Predicament of Jazz Criticism in the Swing Era 219
10. Epilogue 257
11. Notes 271
12. Selected Bibliography 311
13. Index 325