Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies - Professor of English and African-American Studies Robert O'Meally - Google Books

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Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the…