- Social life and customs, African Americans in the performing arts, African American Participation, World War, 1914-1918
"With ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Tyehimba Jess presents the sweat and story behind America’s blues, worksongs and church hymns. Part fact, part fiction, Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I.
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- Author
- Tyehimba Jess
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Wave Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781940696201
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