Professor Dee Morris
Office: EPB 460
Office hours: Thurs. 2:00-3:45 pm & by appointment
dee-morris@uiowa.edu
| Bailey, Derek | Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music. | ML 430.5 .B34 |
| Baker, Houston | Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory | PS153.N5 B23 1984 |
| Baraka, Amiri | Blues People: Negro Music in White America | ML3556 .B16 |
| Berliner, Paul | Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation | ML3506 .B475 1994 |
| Coolidge, Clark | Now It’s Jazz: Writings on Kerouac & The Sounds | PS3553.O57 N68 1999 |
| DeVeaux, Scott | The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History | ML3506 .D48 1997 |
| Feld, Stephen | Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression | DU740.42 .F44 1982 |
| Fischlin and Heble | The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue | ML 3506.O68 2004 |
| Gates, Henry Louis | The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism | PS153.N5 G27 1988 |
| Ginsberg, Allen | Howl: Original Draft Facsimile | PS3513.I74 H6 1986 |
| Locke, Graham | Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, & Anthony Braxton | ML390 .L79 1999 |
| Mackey, Nathaniel | Discrepant Engagement Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing | PS221 .M24 1993 |
| Mackey, Nathaniel | Djbot Baghostus’s Run | PS3563.A45487 D53 1993 |
| Mackey, Nathaniel | Paracritical Hinge: Essays, talks, notes, interviews | PS 3563.A45487 A6 |
| Magee, Michael | Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing | PS1638 .M27 2004 |
| Moten, Fred | In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition | E185 .M895 2003 |
| Nielsen, Aldon Lynn | Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism | PS153.N5 N535 1997 |
| Nielsen, Aldon Lynn | Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation | PS153.N5 N5354 2004 |
| Nielsen and Ramey | Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans | PS591.N4 E937 2006 |
| Rampersad, Arnold | The Life of Langston Hughes. Volume 1 | PS3515.U274 Z735 1986 |
| Rampersad, Arnold | The Life of Langston Hughes. Vol. 2 | PS3515.U274 Z735 2002 |
| Sundquist, Eric J. | Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man | OS3509,K557 /z635 1995 |
| Thomas, Lorenzo | Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and Twentieth-Century American Poetry | PS310.N4 T48 2000 |
Boweb resources
The Blues Glossary is a site put up by PBS with short definitions of historical, cultural, and aesthetic terms pertaining to the blues.