Beyond the sound barrier : the jazz controversy in twentieth-century American fiction / Kristin K. Henson.

Beyond the Sound Barrier examines twentieth-century fictional representations of popular music-particularly jazz-in the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison. Kristin K. Henson argues that an analysis of musical tropes in the work of these four auth...

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Main Author: Henson, Kristin K., 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series:Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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505 0 |a Cover; Original Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE A sympathetic, singing instrument: Musical Tropes and Cultural Fusion in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography if an Ex-Coloured Man; CHAPTER TWO A big sensation -- CHAPTER THREE Musical Range: Langston Hughes's The Ways of White Folks; CHAPTER FOUR Only in the head of a musician: The Powers of Music in Toni Morrison's Jazz; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. 
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650 0 |a Jazz musicians in literature. 
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