POOR GAL: THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF LITTLE LIZA JANE TABLE OF CONTENTS.

 

Publication info

Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane, University Press of Mississippi, November 27, 2023. Available at UPM website, Amazon, and other online merchants. “Liza Jane” is also the subject of a forthcoming documentary film; please visit the project’s website for a trailer, information on the creative team, details on participating musicians, and ways to support the production. […For even more, please see a post regarding some of the lesser-known characters in Poor Gal; Poor Gal Spotify playlist; and the author’s website.]


Dear Readers, this post is meant, simply, to present Poor Gal’s Table of Contents:


Introduction: Sludge and Theory

I. Snotches of Songs: The WPA Slave Narrative Collection

II. “Liza Jane,” You Little Rogue: Dr. Adonis and the Regiments

III. 1865

IV. Intermission Number One: The Potential Influences of Robert Burns, “Susan Jane,” and Others

V. “Liza Jane” Meets the Masses: Postbellum Minstrelsy, Part First and Part Third

VI. From the Bold Soldier Boy’s Songbook to the Cylinders of George W. Johnson: “Oh, Goodbye Liza Jane”

VII. From the New Orleans Levee to the Hampton Institute: “Little Liza Jane” ad infinitum

VIII. Intermission Number Two: The Literary “Liza Jane” of Charles Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, and Margaret Walker

IX. You Went a-Driving with Mister Brown: The Tin Pan Alley Publishing Bonanza

X. Poor Gal

XI. I’se Got a Gal and You Got None: A Countess-Composer and an Actress-Aviatrix Popularize “Li’l Liza Jane”

XII. Intermission Number Three: Effie Lee Newsome’s “Charcoal, Leddy, Charcoal” and Betty Vincent’s “Problems of the Heart”

XIII. “Liza Jane” Meets the Media: Film, Animation, Radio, Television

XIV. The Lomaxes

XV. The Constellation That Connects Langston Hughes and David Bowie, Antonín Dvořák and Nina Simone

XVI. Portrait of a Young Enslaved Woman Standing Still in the Cathedral Silence of the Deep Woods after a Dance

Appendix 1: Loose Ends

Appendix 2: Sheet Music or Notated Music of Major Variants


Also included are an Apologia and Acknowledgments in the “front matter” of the book as well as Notes, Works Cited, and Index at the end of the book.