1. African music, religion, and narrative.
3. Syncretization and synthesis: folk and written traditions.
4. African-American modernism, signifyin(g), and Black music.
5. The Negro renaissance: Harlem and Chicago flowerings.
6. Transitions: function and difference in myth and ritual.
7. Continuity and discontinuity: the Fifties.
8. The Sixties and after.
9. Troping the blues: from spirituals to the concert hall.
10. The object of call-response: the signifyin(g) symbol.
11. Implications and conclusions.