Who can afford to improvise? : James Baldwin and black music, the lyric and the listeners / by Pavlic, Edward M.

Table of Contents: “…Front ; Contents; Introduction; "Not the country we're sitting in now"; Blues Constants, Jazz Changes; "Making words; Billie Holiday: Radical Lyricist; Dinah Washington's Blues and the Trans- Digressive Ocean; "But Amen is the price"; On Camden Row; Speechless in San Francisco; "In a way they must …”
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Rhetorical crossover : the black presence in white culture / by Burrows, Cedric

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Too Black, Too Strong: The Black Rhetorical Presence -- "Hey, Man, You're Taking My Heritage": Rhetorical Crossover, R & B, and Dinah Washington -- Black Skin, White Discourse: Whitescripting and Cultroscripting Textbooks -- That's Entertainment? …”
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Mean old world Vol. 1.

Table of Contents: “…Ma Rainey (Memphis Minnie) (2:35) -- I'm gonna move to the outskirts of town (Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five) (2:42) -- Mean old 'Frisco blues (Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup) (2:28) -- Bourgeois blues (Leadbelly) (2:16) -- Mean old world (T-Bone Walker) (2:45) -- Evil gal blues (Dinah Washington) (2:42) -- I wonder (Cecil Gant) (2:33) -- Blood on the moon (Hot Lips Page) (2:14) -- Chicago breakdown (Big Maceo) (2:47) -- Angels in Harlem (Doctor Clayton) (2:54) -- Billie's blues (Billie Holiday) (3:25) -- Hoodoo Hoodoo (John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson) (2:46) -- Good rockin' tonight (Roy Brown and his Mighty Men) (2:56) -- Chicken-shack boogie (Amos Milburn) (2:42) -- Trouble blues (Charles Brown) (2:15) -- Crawlin' kingsnake (John Lee Hooker) (2:52) -- When things go wrong with you (it hurts me too) (Tampa Red) (2:53) -- Cairo blues (Li'l Son Jackson) (2:44) -- Black Angel blues (sweet black angel) (Robert Nighthawk) (2:55) -- Mardi Gras in New Orleans (Professor Longhair) (2:45) -- Every day I have the blues (Lowell Fulson) (2:24) -- Double crossing blues (Johnny Otis Quintette with Little Esther Phillips) (2:40).…”