DescriptionThis dissertation is a study of “the American fantastic,” i.e. the literary fantastic in an American context. I suggest that conceiving of the fantastic in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s and...
DescriptionThis dissertation, which spans the period between the 1820s and the Civil War, uses debates about slavery and citizenship to explore how and to what end African Americans incorporated quantification...
DescriptionThis dissertation approaches the American folk music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s from a feminist perspective, offering the concept of folk feminism as an analytical framework for...
Description"'To Capture a Vision Fair:' Black Sorority Women and the Shift from Respectability Politics to Public Policy, 1935-1975," illuminates the ways in which Black women reworked existing traditions and...
DescriptionThis is an audio from a television broadcast at the Blue Note in 1960. The audio begins with music from a nightclub by pianist Alice McLeod (later Coltrane), with Don King (bass) and Don Brown...
DescriptionThis audio is from a 1960 television broadcast. Bud Powell plays John's Abbey. Then the host (Sim Copans) introduces Lucky Thompson (2:38). Thompson (soprano saxophone), pianist Alice McLeod (later...
DescriptionThis audio contains a brief story, possibly told by Dexter Gordon, overlapping with Bud Powell's piano, playing his composition “Oblivion." The audio appears to be from a documentary soundtrack. At...
