Beyond the Sound Barrier The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series
Auteur : Henson Kristin K
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 culturally amalgamated, boundary-crossing form of expression that reflects and defines modern American identities.
Date de parution : 03-2016
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 04-2003
15.2x22.9 cm
Thèmes de Beyond the Sound Barrier :
Mots-clés :
Ex-Coloured Man; Young Man; Twentieth Century American Fiction; Musical Tropes; Mrican American; African American Musical Traditions; Breaks Outs; African American Cultural; African American Musical Styles; Jazz Age; Fitzgerald's Fiction; Popular Music; Tin Pan Alley; African Americans; Morrison's Writing; Ragtime Music; God's Trombones; Jazz History; Johnson's Writing; Louis Riot; Mrican American Culture; Morrison's Jazz; Harlem Renaissance; Cultural Amalgamation; Chopin