Title The jazz trope : a theory of African American literary and vernacular culture / Alfonso W. Hawkins, Jr.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Talbott: Circulating Collection	PS153.N5 H37 2008	Available	---

Description	xxv, 243 pages ; 23 cm.
Series	African American cultural theory ; 1
	African American cultural theory ; 1.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.
Contents	Booker T. Washington : Up from slavery in the valley of the shadow of death -- Jazz as exoticism -- Zora Neale Hurston and Billie Holiday : improvisation through interpretation -- Lamentations or the blues : the proverbial moan -- The elusive undertone : a nonnegotiable performance of time, text, and melody -- A jazz schematic : the concluding Naturalistic trope.
Subject	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- African American authors.
	American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
	Jazz in literature.
	Jazz in literature.
	Music and literature.
	Music and literature.
ISBN	9780810861268 paperback alkaline paper
	0810861267 paperback alkaline paper