Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to FreedomOxford University Press, 1978 - 522 páginas '.....Through an exhaustive investigation of black songs, folk tales, proverbs, aphorisms, verbal games and the long narrative oral poems known as 'toasts, ' Levine argues that the value system of Afro-Americans can only be understood through an analysis of Black culture....His work ranks among the best books written on the Afro-American experience in recent years.' Al-Tony Gilmore, The Washington Post |
Índice
THE SACRED WORLD OF BLACK SLAVES | 3 |
A Question of Origins | 19 |
Slave Spirituals | 30 |
Slave Folk Beliefs | 55 |
THE MEANING OF SLAVE TALES | 81 |
Of Morality and Survival | 90 |
The Animal Trickster | 102 |
The Slave as Trickster | 118 |
The Development of Gospel Song | 174 |
THE RISE OF SECULAR SONG | 190 |
Work Songs | 202 |
The Community of Laughter | 358 |
A PANTHEON OF HEROES | 367 |
The Slave as Hero | 386 |
The Modernization of the Black Hero | 397 |
Bad Men and Bandits | 407 |
Slave Tales and the Sacred Universe | 133 |
The Fate of the Sacred World | 155 |
John Henry to Joe Louis | 420 |
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from ... Lawrence W. Levine Vista de fragmentos - 1977 |
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Términos y frases comunes
African Afro-American ain't Alabama Alan Lomax American Negro Folk-Songs Archive asked Ballads Bessie Smith black music black song blues singer Brer Brown called Chap Charley Patton church Coahoma County collected colored culture dance Dorson Elsie Clews Parsons emancipation ex-slave Fisk University Folklore Folktales freedmen Georgia goin gonna gwine heard heroes hollers Jack Johnson Jazz Jesus John Henry jokes kill laugh laughter Lawd Leadbelly lived Lord lore Louis Ma Rainey master Mississippi Moms Mabley never nigger North Odum and Johnson Parsons plantation play popular preacher Rabbit Records religion religious sacred sang Sea Islands secular song shout sing Slave Narratives Slave Songs slavery society South Carolina southern spirituals stories sung tale tell Texas tion told traditional trickster twentieth century Uncle Remus Virginia whip white folks William woman workers WPA manuscripts WPA Slave Narratives York
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