Deep river: music and memory in Harlem Renaissance thought

"Unvoiced longings": Du Bois and the "sorrow songs"

Swan songs and art songs: the spirituals and the "new Negro" in the 1920s

"The twilight of aestheticism": Locke on cosmopolitanism and musical evolution

"Beneath the seeming informality": Hughes, Hurston, and the politics of form

Saving jazz from its friends: the predicament of jazz criticism in the swing era.