Playing the Changes

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Playing the Changes is written by Craig Hansen Werner and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252066413 (ISBN 10) and 9780252066412 (ISBN 13).

A final sequence highlights the centrality of black music to African American writing, arguing that recognizing blues, gospel, and jazz as theoretically suggestive cultural practices rather than specific musical forms points to what is most distinctive in twentieth-century African American writing: its ability to subvert attempts to limit its engagement with psychological, historical, political, or aesthetic realities.