| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 275 pages) : music. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Garland reference library of the humanities ;
v. 2097. Border crossings ;
v. 9
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 2097.
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Garland reference library of the humanities. Border crossings ; v. 9.
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| 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 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Music and literature -- History -- 20th century.
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Music and literature. |
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History. |
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African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Music. |
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Musical fiction -- History and criticism.
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Musical fiction. |
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African American musicians in literature.
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African American musicians in literature. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Music in literature.
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Music in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Simawe, Saadi.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Black Orpheus. New York : Garland Pub., 2000 0815331231 (DLC) 99086215 (OCoLC)43227374 |
| ISBN |
0203904419 (electronic book) |
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9780203904411 (electronic book) |
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9780203904404 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0203904400 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780815331230 (acid-free paper) |
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0815331231 (acid-free paper) |
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0203904443 |
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9780203904442 |
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