Title Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison / edited by Saadi A. Simawe.

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New York : Garland Pub., 2000.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Talbott: Circulating Collection	PS374.N4 B59 2000	Available	---

Description	xxv, 275 pages : music ; 23 cm.
Series	Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2097. Border crossings ; v. 9
	Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2097.
	Garland reference library of the humanities. Border crossings ; v. 9.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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 ways, 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.
Subject	American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- African American authors.
	American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American fiction.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	Music and literature -- History -- 20th century.
	Music and literature.
	History.
	African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
	African Americans -- Music.
	Musical fiction -- History and criticism.
	Musical fiction.
	African American musicians in literature.
	African American musicians in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Music in literature.
	Music in literature.
Added Author	Simawe, Saadi.
ISBN	0815331231 acid-free paper
	9780815331230 acid-free paper

Title Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison / edited by Saadi A. Simawe.

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