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    1. Creole-and African-derived influences on the music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Simon,Stuart A. (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    52 p., Gottschalk traveled extensively. A sojourn in Cuba during 1854 was the beginning of a series of trips to Central and South America. He also traveled to Puerto Rico after his Havana debut and at the start of his Caribbean period. Taken with the music he heard on the island, he composed a work entitled Souvenir de Porto Rico; Marche des gibaros, Op. 31 (RO250).

    2. Flight as improvisational solo in jazz and blues fiction

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Kosse,Jeffrey P. (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Lincoln, Nebraska: The University of Nebraska
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    204 p., This dissertation examines the roles played by jazz and blues in African American fiction of the post-World War II era. The author contends that scholars of jazz and blues fiction generally discuss the authors' treatment of the music in terms of how it shows up, is alluded to, or is played; however, few address performative elements that are central to much African American literature. Their performances, whether as narratives or geosocial movements, often draw upon forms of flight as defining actions that send them into new territories and necessitate acts of improvisation. Forms of flight manifest themselves as improvised solos in numerous ways, including in this dissertation the path of Ellison's narrator going north and ultimately underground in Invisible Man , brothers leaving their Harlem pasts and coming together while on ever-divergent paths in James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues," Milkman Dead discovering the secret of literal flight by improvising through a journey to his familial past in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon , or the members of Macon Street's "flesh-and-blood triangle" choosing the expatriate route of Paris instead of America in Paule Marshall's The Fisher King.

    3. Public performance: Free people of color fashioning identities in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Grant,Jacqueline (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Florida: University of Miami
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    237 p., Free people of color held an ambiguous place in Caribbean slave societies. On the one hand they were nominally free, but the reality of their daily lives was often something less than free. This work examines how free people of color, or libres de color , in nineteenth-century Cuba attempted to carve out lives for themselves in the face of social, economic, and political constraints imposed on them by white Cubans and Spaniards living in the island. It focuses on how through different Afro-Cuban associations some libres de color used public music and dance performances to self-fashion identities on their own terms.