Beyond the sound barrier :: the jazz controversy in twentieth-century American fiction /

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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1. Verfasser: Henson, Kristin K., 1968-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Routledge, 2003.
Schriftenreihe:Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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Zusammenfassung: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 authors suggests that cultural ""mixing"" constitutes one of the central preoccupations of modernist literature. Valuable for any reader interested in the intersections between American literature and the history of American popular music, Henson situates the literary use of popular music as a
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vii, 159 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.
ISBN:9781136726804
1136726802

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