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Rethinking Slavery And Freedom (Book Reviews), Edward L. Ayers
Rethinking Slavery And Freedom (Book Reviews), Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
Review essay of the following books:
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin.
Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War edited by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland.
On The Jazz Musician's Love/Hate Relationship With The Audience, Bertram D. Ashe
On The Jazz Musician's Love/Hate Relationship With The Audience, Bertram D. Ashe
English Faculty Publications
An assistant professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross, Bertram D. Ashe discusses how the intersection of an African American cool style with a black vernacular tradition and multi-racial audiences complicates audience-performer relations. In the vernacular tradition, performers play not "to" but "with" an audience, drawing on the call-response patterns that characterize the black aesthetic. Ashe notes that the vernacular tradition is not racial but cultural, and class can be as important a marker as race in determining audience expectations. Differing cultural backgrounds create, in Ashe's words, "competing realities," distinct sets of expectations that can shape a …
Natives And Academics: Researching And Writing About American Indians (Book Review), David E. Wilkins
Natives And Academics: Researching And Writing About American Indians (Book Review), David E. Wilkins
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
Review of the book, Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing About American Indians by Devon Mihesuah. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.