Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem
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| Autore: |
Simawe Saadi
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| Titolo: |
Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Routledge, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.509357 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism |
| American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century | |
| Music and literature - History - 20th century | |
| African Americans - Music - History and criticism | |
| Musical fiction - History and criticism | |
| African American musicians in literature | |
| African Americans in literature | |
| Music in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Names | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Black Orpheus |
| ISBN: | 1-135-57983-0 |
| 1-280-40735-2 | |
| 9786610407354 | |
| 0-203-90440-0 | |
| 0-203-90441-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910172252003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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