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Jurgen Grandt demonstrated impressive expertise in blues/jazz and African American musical/oral traditions in general in Kinds of Blue, and now shows us how to read hip-hop as an extension of the texts and forms that preceded it. This excellent study will surely appeal to scholars of African American literature, to blues, jazz, and rock aficionados and scholars. In addition, it will be of interest to those who are eager for new, interdisciplinary approaches to the humanities. John Lowe, professor of English, Louisiana State University

Jurgen Grandt boldly enters the ongoing debates over the nature and history of African American modernism. What Grandt does is to stake out a middle course between two extant schools of thought, describing an 'Afro-Modernism, ' with its roots in the fertile ground of Southern ritual, that operates differently, but not entirely apart from, modernism figured more broadly. This holds great promise to advance the debates beyond the point at which they might seem stalled. --Aldon Nielsen, George and Barbara Kelly Professor in American Literature, Pennsylvania State University Jurgen Grandt boldly enters the ongoing debates over the nature and history of African American modernism. What Grandt does is to stake out a middle course between two extant schools of thought, describing an Afro-Modernism, with its roots in the fertile ground of Southern ritual, that operates differently, but not entirely apart from, modernism figured more broadly. This holds great promise to advance the debates beyond the point at which they might seem stalled. Aldon Nielsen, George and Barbara Kelly Professor in American Literature, Pennsylvania State University Jurgen Grandt demonstrated impressive expertise in blues/jazz and African American musical/oral traditions in general in Kinds of Blue, and now shows us how to read hip-hop as an extension of the texts and forms that preceded it. This excellent study will surely appeal to scholars of African American literature, to blues, jazz, and rock aficionados and scholars. In addition, it will be of interest to those who are eager for new, interdisciplinary approaches to the humanities. John Lowe, professor of English, Louisiana State University Jurgen Grandt demonstrated impressive expertise in blues/jazz and African American musical/oral traditions in general in Kinds of Blue , and now shows us how to read hip-hop as an extension of the texts and forms that preceded it. This excellent study will surely appeal to scholars of African American literature, to blues, jazz, and rock aficionados and scholars. In addition, it will be of interest to those who are eager for new, interdisciplinary approaches to the humanities. --John Lowe, professor of English, Louisiana State University

Jurgen Grandt boldly enters the ongoing debates over the nature and history of African American modernism. What Grandt does is to stake out a middle course between two extant schools of thought, describing an 'Afro-Modernism, ' with its roots in the fertile ground of Southern ritual, that operates differently, but not entirely apart from, modernism figured more broadly. This holds great promise to advance the debates beyond the point at which they might seem stalled. --Aldon Nielsen, George and Barbara Kelly Professor in American Literature, Pennsylvania State University

Jurgen Grandt boldly enters the ongoing debates over the nature and history of African American modernism. What Grandt does is to stake out a middle course between two extant schools of thought, describing an Afro-Modernism, with its roots in the fertile ground of Southern ritual, that operates differently, but not entirely apart from, modernism figured more broadly. This holds great promise to advance the debates beyond the point at which they might seem stalled. Aldon Nielsen, George and Barbara Kelly Professor in American Literature, Pennsylvania State University

J rgen Grandt boldly enters the ongoing debates over the nature and history of African American modernism. What Grandt does is to stake out a middle course between two extant schools of thought, describing an 'Afro-Modernism, ' with its roots in the fertile ground of Southern ritual, that operates differently, but not entirely apart from, modernism figured more broadly. This holds great promise to advance the debates beyond the point at which they might seem stalled. --Aldon Nielsen, George and Barbara Kelly Professor in American Literature, Pennsylvania State University J rgen Grandt demonstrated impressive expertise in blues/jazz and African American musical/oral traditions in general in Kinds of Blue, and now shows us how to read hip-hop as an extension of the texts and forms that preceded it. This excellent study will surely appeal to scholars of African American literature, to blues, jazz, and rock aficionados and scholars. In addition, it will be of interest to those who are eager for new, interdisciplinary approaches to the humanities. --John Lowe, professor of English, Louisiana State University

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Jurgen E. Grandt is Marion L. Brittain Fellow in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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