Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison / edited by Saadi A. Simawe.
Material type: TextSeries: Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 2097. | Garland reference library of the humanities. Border crossings ; ; v. 9.Publication details: New York : Garland Pub., 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 275 pages) : musicContent type:- text
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- 9780203904411
- 9780203904404
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- American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- 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
- Roman américain -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique
- Roman américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Musique et littérature -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Noirs américains -- Musique -- Histoire et critique
- Musiciens noirs américains dans la littérature
- Noirs américains dans la littérature
- Musique dans la littérature
- Roman musical -- Histoire et critique
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- African American musicians in literature
- African Americans in literature
- African Americans -- Music
- American fiction
- American fiction -- African American authors
- Music and literature
- Music in literature
- Musical fiction
- Literatur
- Musik
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Schwarze
- USA
- Schwärze
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1920-1995
- 813/.509357 21
- PS374.N4 B59 2000eb
- HU 1691
- HU 1728
- LR 57710
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series editor's foreword / Daniel Albright -- Introduction: the agency of sound in African American fiction / Saadi A. Simawe -- Singing the unsayable: theorizing music in Dessa Rose / Jacquelyn A. Fox-Good -- Claude McKay: music, sexuality, and literary cosmopolitanism / Tom Lutz -- Black moves, white way, every body's blues: orphic power in Langston Hughes's The ways of white folks / Jane Olmsted -- Black and blue: the female body of blues writing in Jean Toomer, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones / Katherine Boutry -- That old black magic? Gender and music in Ann Petry's fiction / Johanna X.K. Garvey -- "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing": jazz's many uses for Toni Morrison / Alan J. Rice -- Shange and her three sisters "sing a liberation song": variations on the orphic theme / Maria V. Johnson -- Nathaniel Mackey's unit structures / Joseph Allen -- Shamans of song: music and the politics of culture in Alice Walker's early fiction / Saadi A. Simawe.
Print version record.
In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its power as a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations of music.
English.
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