Beyond the sound barrier : the jazz controversy in twentieth-century American fiction / / Kristin K. Henson |
Autore | Henson Kristin K. <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013, [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 813/.509357 |
Collana | Literary criticism and cultural theory |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Jazz in literature American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism Music and literature - History - 20th century Musical fiction - History and criticism African American musicians in literature Jazz musicians in literature Music in literature Race in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-138-96463-8
1-315-02431-4 1-136-72680-2 1-136-72673-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453201303321 |
Henson Kristin K. <1968-> | ||
Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013, [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison / / edited by Saadi A. Simawe |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Garland Pub., 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.509357 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SimaweSaadi |
Collana | Garland reference library of the humanities ;Border crossings |
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 |
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 | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910172252003321 |
New York, : Garland Pub., 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ecstatic sound : music and individuality in the work of Thomas Hardy / / John Hughes |
Autore | Hughes John <1957-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 pages) |
Disciplina | 823.8 |
Collana | The Nineteenth Century |
Soggetto topico |
Music and literature - History - 19th century
Musical fiction - History and criticism Individuality in literature Music in literature |
ISBN |
1-351-94174-7
1-315-25700-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. 'Souls unreconciled to life' -- 2. 'Those unaccountable sensations' -- 3. The beats of being' -- 4. Till time seemed fiction' -- 5. 'Let every man make a philosophy for himself out of his own experience'. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154995703321 |
Hughes John <1957-, > | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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