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Author:   Ronald Radano
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.445kg
ISBN:  

9781478032175

ISBN 10:   1478032170
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   29 August 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Black Labor, Value, and the Anomalies of Enlivened Sound 1 First Metamorphosis: Property’s Properties of Reconstructive Possibility 1. Slave Labor and the Emergence of a Peculiar Music 41 Second Metamorphosis: Free Labor and the Racial-Economic Transaction of Animated Form 2. Scabrous Sounds of a Vagrant Proletariat 81 3. Minstrelsy’s Incredible Corporealities 118 Third Metamorphosis: Contests of Ownership in Early National Markets 4. Ragtime’s Double-Time Accumulation 159 5. New Coalescences of Spectacular Form: Stride Piano and Ragtime Piano Rolls 189 6. Commodity Circuits and the Making of a Jazz Counterhistory 223 Fourth Metamorphosis: Racialized Embodiments of Hypercapitalized Pop 7. Swing: Black Music’s New Modern Becoming 283 8. Living Forms, Imagined Truths: Aesthetic Breakthroughs in Jazz at Midcentury 331 9. Apotheosis of a New Black Music 365 Afterword: Modernity’s Ghosts 424 Notes 429 Bibliography 493 Index

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""Uncovering striking and novel parallels across various forms of African American music while challenging conventional formulations of identity and historical periodization, Ronald Radano upends settled wisdom around African American music and presents a new historical and critical model for its development.""--George E. Lewis, author of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music

Author Information

Ronald Radano is Professor Emeritus of African Cultural Studies and Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Among his books is Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique, also published by Duke University Press.

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