1st Edition
Beyond the Sound Barrier The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction
By Kristin K Henson
Copyright 2003
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction Chapter One: A sympathetic, singing instrument: Musical Tropes and Cultural Fusion in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man Chapter Two: A big sensation: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jazz Anxiety 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 Afterword Works Cited Index
Biography
Kristin K. Henson
