Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture

by John Szwed

Book Overview

Ranging across genres from the popular to the scholarly, this selection of John Szwed's published essays abides in the intersection of race and art, jazz and rap: crossovers inside and outside the academy. With reviews written for the Village Voice and articles from academic journals, this volume includes essays, commentary, and meditations on James Agee and Walker Evans, Cuban folklorist Lydia Cabrera, Lafcadio Hearn, Melville Herskovits,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812219724
• ISBN13: 9780812219722
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"