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Page 103
... American music was colored by the emergence of an American Negro culture . " Of importance to a sense of the larger tradition , " The ' Coon Shout ' proposed one version of the American Negro — and of America ; Ornette Coleman proposes ...
... American music was colored by the emergence of an American Negro culture . " Of importance to a sense of the larger tradition , " The ' Coon Shout ' proposed one version of the American Negro — and of America ; Ornette Coleman proposes ...
Page 104
... American Acad- emy's vision of a Europeanized and colonial American culture , or to be lying . In the end , the same emotional sterility results . It is some- how much more tragic for the black man . Jazz , the new fiction , poetry ...
... American Acad- emy's vision of a Europeanized and colonial American culture , or to be lying . In the end , the same emotional sterility results . It is some- how much more tragic for the black man . Jazz , the new fiction , poetry ...
Page 176
... American writer , and it is by purely American criteria that he wishes to be judged . To L. E. Sissman , who measured his novels as short of Emily Brontë's , Reed replies , " This is the kind of confu- sion and ignorance that you have ...
... American writer , and it is by purely American criteria that he wishes to be judged . To L. E. Sissman , who measured his novels as short of Emily Brontë's , Reed replies , " This is the kind of confu- sion and ignorance that you have ...
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