Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture

Robert O'Meally

Published by Columbia University Press 2022

Antagonistic Cooperation

Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture

Robert O'Meally

In the series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures

https://doi.org/10.7312/omea18918

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About this book

From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Robert G. O’Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and literature have informed one another.

Author / Editor information

Robert G. O’Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he is also founder and director of the Center for Jazz Studies. He is the author of Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1989); editor of The Jazz Cadence of American Culture (Columbia, 1998); and coeditor of Uptown Conversations: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia, 2004), among many other books.

Reviews

William J. Maxwell, author of F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature:
Ever lively and cautiously optimistic, Antagonistic Cooperation is a moving revival of jazz-democracy discourse in downbeat times. O’Meally passes on a lifetime of tales and insights, vivid and learned, revealing rhymes among Black music, African American writing, and American political thought.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. This Music Demanded Action: Ellison, Armstrong, and the Imperatives of Jazz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. We Are All a Collage: Armstrong’s Operatic Blues, Bearden’s Black Odyssey, and Morrison’s Jazz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3. The “Open Corner” of Black Community and Creativity: From Romare Bearden to Duke Ellington and Toni Morrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
4. Hare and Bear: The Racial Politics of Satchmo’s Smile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
5. The White Trombone and the Unruly Black Cosmopolitan Trumpet, or How Paris Blues Came to Be Unfinished Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Coda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: General/trade;

eBook

Published: February 15, 2022
ISBN: 9780231548212