James Weldon Johnson's Modern Soundscapes

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments, xi IntroduCtIon The Ragtime Reinventions of James Weldon (William) Johnson, 1 1 BIography of the raCe Musical Comedy and the Modern Soundscape of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, 33 2 Cultures of talk Diplomacy, Nation, and Race in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, 65 3 the Interpolated Body Passing, Same-Sex Talk, and Discursive Formations in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, 83 4 CosmopolItan travels Diplomacy, Translation, and Performance in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Der weisse Neger, 1928) and God’s Trombones, 96 5 framIng BlaCk expressIve Culture Prefaces to The Book of American Negro Poetry, The Book of American Negro Spirituals, and God’s Trombones, 116 6 “the CreatIon” God’s Trombones and Johnson’s Formation of a Black Modernist Poetics, 138 7 from noun to verB Black Phonographic Voice in Black Manhattan, 150 8 not the story of my lIfe Along This Way, 167 afterword Remembering James Weldon Johnson, 185 Notes, 207 Bibliography, 227 Index, 237 ...