Signifyin(g), sanctifyin' & slam dunking: a reader in African american expressive culture

From preface to the books of American Negro spirituals / James Weldon Johnson

Aesthetic of the cool : West African dance / Robert Farris Thompson

Africa and the West Indies / Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns

Playing the blues / Albert Murray

Africans, Europeans and the making of music / Christopher Small

Ring shout! Literary studies, historical studies, and Black music inquiry / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.

Heterogeneous sound ideal in African-American music / Olly Wilson

Impact of gospel music on the secular music industry / Portia K. Maultsby

Flow, layering, and rupture in post industrial New York / Tricia Rose

"Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life" : meaning and style in African American vernacular dance / Jacqui Malone

Lester Young and the birth of cool / Joel Dinerstein

On the Jazz musician's love/hate relationship with the audience / Bertram D. Ashe

Characteristics of Negro expression / Zora Neale Hurston

Signifying, loud-talking and marking / Claudia Mitchell-Kernan

Stylin' outta the Black pulpit / Grace Sims Holt

Resistance too civilized to notice / William D. Piersen

Black and White truth about basketball / Jeff Greenfield

Hero of the blues / Gerald Early

Michael Jordan leaps the great divide / John Edgar Wideman

Be like Mike? : Michael Jordan and the pedagogy of desire / Michael Eric Dyson

African-American festive style / William D. Peirsen

From "strolling, jooking, and fixy clothes" / Shane White and Graham White.