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The Jazz Trope

A Theory of African American Literary and Vernacular Culture

By: Alfonso Wilson Hawkins

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The Jazz Trope

A Theory of African American Literary and Vernacular Culture

By: Alfonso Wilson Hawkins

The Jazz Trope takes a look at the African American lifestyle through the lens of jazz, blues, and spirituals. Through the pioneering efforts of Albert Murray, Ralph Ellison, Houston Baker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, and other notable scholars who have related jazz, spirituals, and blues to African American life and culture, The Jazz Trope offers an opportunity to add scholarship to the perception of African American identity as a creative attempt to survive a unique history and struggle. Transcending structure and the perimeters that it limits, African American musical statements were produced out of a human need to be free. Using jazz as a metaphor for escaping slavery, jazz can be seen as a creative attempt to exceed restriction through the act of improvisation; jazz takes a known melody and changes it to create a personal identity. The literary genre of African American life reflects this melding of musical milieu. It tells through tropes of the folktale, novel, self-script, slave narrative, myth, and legend a unique American experience and history. This book also explores motives and schemes that were hidden behind musical codes, illustrating that jazz (interrelated with its foundation in blues and spirituals) existed as a pre-musical statement and, then, manifested as it is more popularly known: as a musical statement. The Jazz Trope allows students to grasp the jazz song structure within this work and liken it to the tropes that it emits: a true American identity.

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0810861267

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Climate Finance as an Instrument to Promote the Green Growth in Developing Countries

By: Antonio A. Romano,Giuseppe Scandurra,Alfonso Carfora,Monica Ronghi

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Climate Finance as an Instrument to Promote the Green Growth in Developing Countries

By: Antonio A. Romano,Giuseppe Scandurra,Alfonso Carfora,Monica Ronghi

This book analyses the effectiveness of climate finance as political instrument to reduce the effect of anthropogenic activities on climate change and promote the green growth in developing countries. The book highlights that close attention should also be paid to the analysis of political contexts in a broad sense. Particularly focusing on the international negotiations process that enables the direction of funds toward specific needs and priorities and the issue of access to electricity. For example, the difficulties that developing countries face when trying to improve their green economic development without access to carbon remains a matter of the utmost importance and urgency for many developing countries that lack significant aid from developed countries. This book will be of interest to a wide body of academics and practitioners in climate change and energy policies. Moreover, this project is a valid instrument for students in energy policies and climate programs.

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The Jazz Trope

A Theory of African American Literary and Vernacular Culture

By: Alfonso Wilson Hawkins

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A Theory of African American Literary and Vernacular Culture

By: Alfonso Wilson Hawkins

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0810861267

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