Black music, Black poetry : blues and jazz's impact on African American versification /

Table of Contents: “…Authenticity in Black music and poetry -- Original rags: African-American secular music and the cultural legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry/ Ray Sapirstein -- Paul Laurence Dunbar and the spirituals/ Lauri Ramey -- "Greatest is the song": blues as poetic communication in early Langston Hughes and Sterling A. …”