Swinging the Vernacular, Jazz and African American Modernist Literature

Swinging the Vernacular

Jazz and African American Modernist Literature

By Michael Borshuk

Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

List Price: $39.95

ISBN: 978-0-415-80400-4
Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
Published by: Routledge
Publication Date: 06/09/2009
Pages: 270

Introduction: The Language of Jazz as American Culture Becomes Modern 1. Langston Hughes and the First Book of Jazz 2. Thriving on a Riff: Bebop and Langston Hughes's Montage of a Dream Deferred 3. Riffing on the Lower Frequencies: Dialogism, Intertextuality, and Bebop in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man 4. "Here Where Coltrane Is": Jazz, Cultural Memory, and Political Aesthetics in the Poetry of Michael S. Harper 5. Albert Murray Brings It On Home: Revisioning Black Modernism in Train Whistle Guitar. Coda.

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