"Go Sound the Jubilee": Slave Narratives, William Wells Brown & Martin Delany -- "Uplifting the Race": Pauline E. Hopkins & Paul Laurence Dunbar -- "The Most Treasured Heritage of the American Negro": James Weldon Johnson -- "Their Joy Runs, Bang! Into Ecstasy": Langston Hughes, Claude McKay & Zora Neale Hurston -- "Not Many People Ever Really Hear It": Richard Wright, Ann Petry & James Baldwin -- "The Brother Does Not [Does] Sing": Ralph Ellison -- "There Must Be Some People Who Lived For Music": Margaret Walker & William Melvin Kelley -- "The Sound Baked Inside Their Heads":Amiri Baraka & Henry Dumas -- Coda: "What Good Is a Liturgy Without a Text?"
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Discography: pages 245-247
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-243) and index
