For 10 points each, name these authors who did scholarly work on the history of Afro-American song and dance:
[10e] In her essay Characteristics of Negro Expression, this author criticized white dancer Ann Pennington’s rendition of the Black Bottom. This woman’s anthropological research informed her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
ANSWER: Zora Neale Hurston
[10m] This man mapped the shift from blues musicians in the rural south to large jazz ensembles in the urban north in his study Blues People. In a play by this man, the white woman Lula stabs the Black man Clay in a subway car.
ANSWER: Amiri Baraka [or LeRoi Jones] (the play is Dutchman.)
[10h] This contemporary of Amiri Baraka in the Black Arts Movement devised the “Blues God” in his essay “Some Reflections on the Negro Aesthetic.” He wrote the poetry collection Hoodoo Hollerin Bebop Ghosts.
ANSWER: Larry Neal [or Lawrence Neal]
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