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The Norton anthology of African American literature / Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor, Nellie Y. McKay, general editor.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1997.Description: xliv, 2665 p. ; 24 cm. + 1 compact discISBN:
  • 0393040011 :
  • 0393959082 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • African American literature
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.8/0896073 20
LOC classification:
  • PS508.N3 N67 1997
Partial contents:
Vernacular tradition -- Spirituals -- Gospel -- The Blues -- Jazz -- Rap -- Sermons -- Folktales -- Slavery and Freedom: 1746-1865 -- Reconstruction: 1865-1919 -- Harlem Renaissance: 1919-1940 -- Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: 1940-1960 -- Black Arts Movement: 1960-1970 -- Since 1970.
List(s) this item appears in: AAHM - African American History Month
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS508 .N3 N67 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000620475

Contents of audio companion CD: Go down, Moses / trad. (Paul Robeson) (2:20) -- Been in the storm so long / trad.; arr. Work (Fisk Jubilee Singers) (2:06) -- Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? / trad.; arr. Miller (Howard Roberts Chorale/Alvin Ailey) (1:47) -- Steal away to Jesus / trad. (Bernice Johnson Reagon) (3:41) -- Soon I will be done / trad. (Mahalia Jackson) (4:19) -- Take my hand, precious Lord / Dorsey (Clara Ward) (2:39) -- Rosie / trad. (Inmates of the Parchman Farm Penitentiary) (2:50) -- Another man done gone / trad. (Vera Hall) (1:20) -- John Henry / trad.; arr. McGhee and Terry (BrownieMcGhee and Sonny Terry) (4:45) -- You may go but this will bring you back / trad. (Zora Neale Hurston) (1:46) -- Good morning blues / Ledbetter (Leadbelly Ledbetter) (2:55) -- See, see rider / trad. (Ma Rainey, Louis Armstrong) (3:16) -- Backwater blues / Smith (Bessie Smith) (3:17) -- Sunnyland / James (Elmore James) (2:20) -- How long blues / trad.; arr. Wilkins (Joe Turner) (5:43) -- What did I do to be so black and blue? / Waller, Brooks, Razaf (Louis Armstrong) (3:07) -- It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing / Ellington (Duke Ellington with Ivie Anderson) (3:04) -- Parker's mood / Parker, Pleasure (King Pleasure) (2:56) -- The message / Glover ... [et al.] (Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five) (7:11) -- I have a dream / King (Martin Luther King) (5:10) -- The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X (Malcolm X) (5:45).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 2625-2648) and index.

Vernacular tradition -- Spirituals -- Gospel -- The Blues -- Jazz -- Rap -- Sermons -- Folktales -- Slavery and Freedom: 1746-1865 -- Reconstruction: 1865-1919 -- Harlem Renaissance: 1919-1940 -- Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: 1940-1960 -- Black Arts Movement: 1960-1970 -- Since 1970.

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