Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Ragtime Reinventions of James Weldon (William) Johnson
Chapter 1: Biography of the Race: Musical Comedy and the Modern Soundscape of 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man'
Chapter 2: Cultures of Talk: Diplomacy, Nation, and Race in 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man'
Chapter 3: The Interpolated Body: Passing, Same-Sex Talk, and Discursive Formations in 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man'
Chapter 4: Cosmopolitan travels: Diplomacy, Translation, and Performance in 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' (Der weisse Neger, 1928) and 'God's Trombones'
Chapter 5: Framing Black Expressive Culture: Prefaces to 'The Book of American Negro Poetry', 'The Book of American Negro Spirituals', and 'God's Trombones'
Chapter 6: “The Creation” : 'God's Trombones' and Johnson's Formation of a Black Modernist Poetics
Chapter 7: From Noun to Verb: Black Phonographic Voice in 'Black Manhattan'
Chapter 8: Not the story of my life: Along This Way
Afterword: Remembering James Weldon Johnson
Notes
Bibliography
Index