James Weldon Johnson's Modern Soundscapes / by Morrissette, Noelle

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The Ragtime Reinventions of James Weldon (William) Johnson -- Biography of the Race : Musical Comedy and the Modern Soundscape of 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' -- Cultures of Talk : Diplomacy, Nation, and Race in 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' -- The Interpolated Body : Passing, Same-Sex Talk, and Discursive Formations in 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' -- Cosmopolitan travels : Diplomacy, Translation, and Performance in 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' (Der weisse Neger, 1928) and 'God's Trombones' -- Framing Black Expressive Culture : Prefaces to 'The Book of American Negro Poetry', 'The Book of American Negro Spirituals', and 'God's Trombones' -- "The Creation" : 'God's Trombones' and Johnson's Formation of a Black Modernist Poetics -- From Noun to Verb : Black Phonographic Voice in 'Black Manhattan' -- Not the Story of My Life : Along This Way -- Afterword : Remembering James Weldon Johnson.…”
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James Weldon Johnson's Modern Soundscapes / by Morrissette, Noelle

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Ragtime Reinventions of James Weldon (William) Johnson -- Biography of the Race: Musical Comedy and the Modern Soundscape of the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man -- Cultures of Talk: Diplomacy, Nation, and Race in the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man -- The Interpolated Body: Passing, Same-sex Talk, and Discursive Formations in the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man -- Cosmopolitan Travels: Diplomacy, Translation, and Performance in the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Der Weisse Neger, 1928) and God's Trombones -- Framing Black Expressive Culture: Prefaces to the Book of American Negro Poetry, the Book of American Negro Spirituals, and God's Trombones -- "The Creation": God's Trombones and Johnson's Formation of a Black Modernist Poetics -- From Noun to Verb: Black Phonographic Voice in Black Manhattan -- Not the Story of My Life: Along This Way -- Afterword: Remembering James Weldon Johnson.…”
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The Harlem Renaissance revisited : politics, arts, and letters /

Table of Contents: “…Literary icons reconsidered -- Jessie Redmon Fauset reconsidered / Claire Oberon Garcia -- Speak it into existence : James Weldon Johnson's God's trombones and the power of self-definition in the new Negro Harlem Renaissance / McKinley Melton -- Border crossings : the diasporic travels of Claude McKay and Zora Neale Hurston / Myriam J.A. …”

A history of the Harlem Renaissance /

Table of Contents: “…Re-mapping the New Negro -- London, New York, and the Black Bolshevik Renaissance: Radical Black Internationalism during the New Negro Renaissance / James Smethurst -- Island Relations, Continental Visions, and Graphic Networks / Jak Peake -- "Symbols from Within": Charting the Nation's Regions in James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones / Noelle Morrissette -- Rudolph Fisher: Renaissance Man and Harlem's Interpreter / Jonathan Munby -- Part IV. …”
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