Jazz internationalism: literary Afro-modernism and the cultural politics of Black music

"Harlem Jazzing" : Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, and jazz internationalism

"Black man's verse" : the Black Chicago renaissance and the popular front jazz poetics of Frank Marshall Davis

"Do you sing for a living?" : Ann Petry, The street, and the gender politics of World War II jazz

"Cultural exchange" : Cold War jazz and the political aesthetics of Langston Hughes's long poems

"A silent beat in between the drums" : bebop, post-bop, and the Black beat poetics of Bob Kaufman

Conclusion: "A new kind of music": Paule Marshall, The fisher king, and the dissonance of diaspora.