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Swinging the Vernacular

Jazz and African American Modernist Literature

By Michael Borshuk

Series: Studies in African American History and Culture 

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This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to the social and aesthetic significance of stylistic changes in the music.
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