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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819770403321

Autore

Barnhart Bruce <1966->

Titolo

Jazz in the time of the novel : the temporal politics of American race and culture / / Bruce Barnhart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa : , : The University of Alabama Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8173-8690-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

813/.509357

Soggetti

American fiction - History and criticism

Jazz in literature

Music in literature

Rhythm in literature

Time in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Jazz and the novel in the cultural and imaginative landscape -- Music, race, and sublimation: ragtime and symphonic time in the autobiography of an ex-colored man -- "Carolina shout" and the rhythms of rent-party performance -- Forms of repetition and jazz sociality in The Great Gatsby -- Vibratory time in Smith and Armstrong's "St. Louis Blues" -- Rhythmicizing the novel: temporal taxonomies from Larsen to Hemingway, Stein to Hughe.

Sommario/riassunto

Jazz in the Time of the Novel argues that a culture's understanding of the concept of time plays a central role in its economic, social, and aesthetic affairs and that a culture arrives at its conception of time through its artistic practices.  Bruce Barnhart, in Jazz in the Time of the Novel, shows that American culture of the first three decades of the twentieth century was shaped by the kindred rhythms and movements of two particular art forms: jazz and fiction. At the beginning of the twentieth century, widespread changes in America's social, demogr