Lying up a nation : race and Black music / Ronald Radano.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Radano, Ronald Michael
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Subjects:	African Americans > Music > History and criticism. Music > United States > History and criticism.
Physical Description:	xix, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Telling stories, telling lies : revisionist listening and the writing of music history
Resonances of racial absence : Black sounding practices prior to "Negro music"
First truth, second hearing : audible encounters in antebellum black and white
Magical writing : the iconic wonders of the slave spiritual
Of bodies and souls : feeling the pulse of modern race music
Epilogue : a nation's gift.