Writings of Frank Marshall Davis : A Voice of the Black Press.
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Writings of Frank Marshall Davis : A Voice of the Black Press.
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Davis, Frank Marshall.
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9781604731491
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1 online resource (203 pages)
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Subversive Vision of Frank Marshall Davis: An Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- A HISTORY OF BLUES AND ALL THAT JAZZ -- Jazz for Beginners -- Rhythm and Blues -- Background of R&B -- My Finicky Finny Friend -- What Jazz Is -- Understanding the Blues -- Jazz in New orleans -- Shocking the Formalists -- Could Chinese Have Created Jazz? -- Jazz and Religion -- Mirror of Jazz -- The Blues Are Real -- Fifty and '56 -- Modern Jazz Is a Folk Music That Started with the Blues -- Back to the Early Days of Jazz -- Lament for the Blues -- More Mixed Bands Needed -- AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE AT MID-CENTURY -- Richard Wright's Prize Volume, Uncle Tom's Children, Is Strong and Brilliant -- Native Son Greatest Novel Yet by an American Negro -- [12 Million Black Voices] -- Dynamic New Chicago Novel by White Writer Has Introduction by Wright: Never Come Morning -- Richard Wright's New Book, Black Boy, Out of Step with War Torn World -- Bontemps' Black Thunder-An Important Book -- Bontemps' New Novel Tells of Haitian Slave Revolt -- Novel by New Negro Writer Is of Realistic, Hardboiled School -- O Canaan! New Novel by Turpin, Pictures Migration to Chicago -- Kingsblood Royal Should Scare Anti-Negro Whites -- Knock on Any Door Mirrors Weakness of Our Society -- New Hughes Book Shows Pithy Portraits in Poetry -- Disarming Charm Tempers Newest Hughes Poetry -- Montage of a Dream Deferred Is Langston Hughes' Finest Volume of Poetry -- For My People Best Poetry Volume in Five years -- New Book of Poetry Shows Strength, Mastery of Technique -- Power and Force Characterize Young Poet's First Volume -- Back to African Music -- Jazzmen Is Authoritative New Book on History of Jazz and Its Makers -- New Book Gives Short History of Jazz and Lists Records to Hear -- Best Book Yet on Jazz Waters Down Negro Background.
Associates Publish Three Important Bronze Booklets -- For Short Course in Literature Read The Negro Caravan -- The Myth of the Negro Past -- Gunnar Myrdal Conclusions Wrong, Says Historian in [New] Book -- Author Exposes Big Business Tie with Dixie Racism -- PASSING PARADE AS POLITICAL CRITIQUE -- Churchill or Wallace World?: Part I -- Ben and the Reds -- Churchill or Wallace World?: Part II -- Churchill or Wallace World?: Part III -- That AFL Resolution -- We Have Two Parties, Huh? -- Want a Wage Cut? -- Signposts to Fascism -- Long or Short War? -- Why Not Form a Council Against Racism? -- Let's Try Solidarity -- Shift from Conservatism -- Let's Go Fascist! -- More Home Front Fascism -- Let the Soldiers Vote! -- About Roosevelt's Labor Draft -- Check Your Dagger, Mister? -- Defeats of the Home Front -- South Today Needs Your Help -- Meet the Record, Mr. Dawson -- Some Fascists Are Black -- Republicans, What of FEPC? -- Don't Blame Dixie Alone -- AYD Fights Army Jim Crow -- Willkie Helps Roosevelt -- Your Vote, Suh! -- Chicago Tribune Wants Race Riot! -- If It's Red It's Dangerous -- Watch Home Front D-Day -- We Need Wallace -- DEMOCRACY, HAWAIIAN STYLE -- There's Jim Crow, But- -- Land of Ethnic Hash -- Hawaiian Habits -- Honolulu's Harlem -- Hawaiian Students Study the Negro -- Armed Forces Democracy -- Civil War in NAACP -- They're Different Here -- Del Monte's Negro Foreman -- Negroes, Okinawans Have Similar Reaction -- Hawaiian Luau Is Like Country Picnic, Even to Fights -- But Food Is Different -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Özet:
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a central figure in the black press, working as reporter and editor for the Atlanta World , the Associated Negro Press , the Chicago Star , and the Honolulu Record . Writings of Frank Marshall Davis presents a selection of Davis's nonfiction, providing an unprecedented insight into one journalist's ability to reset the terms of public conversation and frame the news to open up debate among African Americans and all Americans. During the middle of the twentieth century, Davis set forth a radical vision that challenged the status quo. His commentary on race relations, music, literature, and American culture was precise, impassioned, and engaged. At the height of World War II, Davis boldly questioned the nature of America's potential postwar relations and what they meant for African Americans and the nation. His work challenged the usefulness of race as a social construct, and he eventually disavowed the idea of race altogether. Throughout his career, he championed the struggles of African Americans for equal rights and laboring people seeking fair wages and other benefits. In his reviews on music, he argued that blues and jazz were responses to social conditions and served as weapons of racial integration. His book reviews complemented his radical vision by commenting on how literature reshapes one's understanding of the world. Even his travel writings on Hawaii called for cultural pluralism and tolerance for racial and economic difference. Writings of Frank Marshall Davis reveals a writer in touch with the most salient issues defining his era and his desire to insert them into the public sphere. John Edgar Tidwell provides an introduction and contextual notes on each major subject area Davis explored. John Edgar Tidwell is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas. He edited Frank Marshall
Davis's Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet and his Black Moods: Collected Poems .
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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