Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by O'Meally, Robert
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by O'Meally, Robert

Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture

Ralph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as "antagonistic cooperation." Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with...
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Author: Robert O'Meally
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Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by O'Meally, Robert

Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture

$113.25
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by O'Meally, Robert

Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture

$113.25
Author: Robert O'Meally
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Ralph 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 Antagonistic Cooperation, 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.

From 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.

Author: Robert O'Meally
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780231189194


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About the Author
Robert 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 Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1989); editor of The Jazz Cadence of American Culture (Columbia, 1998); and coeditor of Uptown Conversations: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia, 2004), among many other books.
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