{"product_id":"antagonistic-cooperation-jazz-collage-fiction-and-the-shaping-of-african-american-culture-9780231189194","title":"Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eRalph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as \"antagonistic cooperation.\" Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with and against one another to create art and community. In \u003ci\u003eAntagonistic Cooperation\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert G. O'Meally shows how this idea runs throughout twentieth-century African American culture to provide a new history of Black creativity and aesthetics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, O'Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and literature have informed one another. He argues that these artists drew on the improvisatory nature of jazz and the techniques of collage not as a way to depict a fractured or broken sense of Blackness but rather to see the Black self as beautifully layered and complex. They developed a shared set of methods and motives driven by the belief that art must involve a sense of community. O'Meally's readings of these artists and their work emphasize how they have not only contributed to understanding of Black history and culture but also provided hope for fulfilling the broken promises of American democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12349742\"\u003eRobert O'Meally\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231189194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231189192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT004040\"\u003eAmerican | African American \u0026amp; Black\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-MUS\"\u003eMusic\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-MUS025000\"\u003eGenres \u0026amp; Styles | Jazz\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT024050\"\u003eModern | 20th Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert G. O'Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he is also founder and director of the Center for Jazz Studies. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday\u003c\/i\u003e (1989); editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Cadence of American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia, 1998); and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eUptown Conversations: The New Jazz Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia, 2004), among many other books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42466286633099,"sku":"0231189192","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_d6e62fe2-741a-41ed-aa51-916d1dfd6d6e.jpg?v=1717335181","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/antagonistic-cooperation-jazz-collage-fiction-and-the-shaping-of-african-american-culture-9780231189194","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}