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"This Is How We Flow" explores the meaning, motif, and theme of rhythm in black cultures throughout the United States and Africa. In ten pathbreaking essays the volume's contributors illustrate how rhythm is the foundation of all African expression— from music and dance to the visual arts, architecture, theater, literature, and film. They suggest, by example, that an African aesthetic does indeed exist, an aesthetic that revolves around the motif of rhythm.

In essays that focus on the medium most commonly associated with the motif, Juliette Bowles discusses rhythm's place in African American music, and Mark Sumner Harvey examines its conceptualization in jazz music. William C. Banfield suggests a methodological framework for composing black music, and Angela M. S. Nelson identifies the primacy of rhythm in African American rap music.

From Martin Luther King's speeches to Claude McKay's poetry, the contributors also consider rhythm as a quality in black oratory, literature, and film. Richard Lischer offers a detailed analysis of Kings speeches, Ronald Dorris elucidates rhythm's meaning in McKays poem "Harlem Dancer," and Darren J. N. Middleton considers the power of rhythm to move people to write and act for social Justice, as in the poetry of Rastafarian dub poets. Suggesting that it is through the lens of rhythm that the meaning of black film of the 1980s and 1990s becomes clearest, D. Sonyini Madison exposes rhythm as ritual, modality, and discourse in the film Daughters of the Dust.

Two contributors round out the discussion by examining expressions of rhythm in African countries. Alton B. Pollard III provides a historical-critical survey of freedom songs in South Africa from the nineteenth century through the 1990s, and Zeric Kay Smith examines "macroand micro-rhythms" in Malian politics, lending credit to the contributors' collective conviction that rhythm organizes and frames African behavior regardless of context.
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