Black Arts to Def Jam: Performing black "spirit work" across generations

New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement

Volumn 9780813541075, Issue , 2006, Pages 349-367

  Smith, Lorrie ^a  

^a SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE   (United States)

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