The grey album on the blackness of blackness - Young, Kevin (Graywolf Press, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Overture -- Elsewhere: The shadow book ; How not to be a slave : on the Black art of escape ; Chorus one : steal away : slavery and its discontents -- Strange fruit: Broken tongue : Paul Laurence Dunbar, his descendants, and the dance of intellect ; Chorus two : it don't mean a thing : the blues mask of modernism ; "If you can't read, run anyhow!" : Langston Hughes and the poetics of refusal -- Heaven is Negro: Chorus three : ugly beauty : postmodernism and all that jazz ; Broken giraffe : Bob Kaufman, the song, and the silence ; Chorus four : moanin' : soul music and the power of pleasure -- Cosmic slop: Interstellar space : toward a post-soul poetics ; Final chorus : Planet Rock : the end of the record: The third coming ; 100 guns ; 36 chambers ; 99 problems ; Deadism