The Practice of Refusal in Willis Laurence James's Song Collecting.
The aim of this essay is to reintroduce Willis Laurence James's (1900–1960) radical practice as a collector and a critic of the field of collecting. James – one of the fascinating, yet understudied collector who documented the music and songs of African American men and women around the American Sou...
| Publicado en: | Comparative American Studies Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 355 - 380 |
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