04053nam 2200865Ia 450 991017225200332120200520144314.01-135-57983-01-280-40735-297866104073540-203-90440-00-203-90441-9(CKB)111056486729344(EBL)170329(OCoLC)84146322(SSID)ssj0000112877(PQKBManifestationID)11129828(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000112877(PQKBWorkID)10098366(PQKB)11027826(MiAaPQ)EBC170329(Au-PeEL)EBL170329(CaPaEBR)ebr10054211(CaONFJC)MIL40735(OCoLC)437078812(OCoLC-P)437078812(FlBoTFG)9780203904404(EXLCZ)9911105648672934419991221d2000 uy 0engurmn|---|||||txtccrBlack Orpheus music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison /edited by Saadi A. Simawe1st ed.New York Garland Pub.20001 online resource (304 p.)Garland reference library of the humanities ;v. 2097.Border crossings ;v. 9Description based upon print version of record.1-138-00177-5 0-8153-3123-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editor's Foreword; Introduction: The Agency of Sound in African American Fiction; Singing the Unsayable: Theorizing Music in Dessa Rose; Claude McKay: Music, Sexuality, and Literary Cosmopolitanism; Black Moves, White Ways, Every Body's Blues: Orphic Power in Langston Hughes's The Ways of White Folks; Black and Blue: The Female Body of Blues Writing in Jean Toomer, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones; That Old Black Magic? Gender and Music in Ann Petry's Fiction~It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing~: Jazz's Many Uses for Toni MorrisonShange and Her Three Sisters ~Sing a Liberation Song~: Variations on the Orphic Theme; Nathaniel Mackey's Unit Structures; Shamans of Song: Music and the Politics of Culture in Alice Walker's Early Fiction; Contributors; Index of NamesIn twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its power as a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations of music.Garland reference library of the humanities ;v. 2097.Garland reference library of the humanities.Border crossings ;v. 9.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansIntellectual life20th centuryMusic and literatureHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansMusicHistory and criticismMusical fictionHistory and criticismAfrican American musicians in literatureAfrican Americans in literatureMusic in literatureAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.African AmericansIntellectual lifeMusic and literatureHistoryAfrican AmericansMusicHistory and criticism.Musical fictionHistory and criticism.African American musicians in literature.African Americans in literature.Music in literature.813/.509357Simawe Saadi966244MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910172252003321Black Orpheus2192956UNINA