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Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison / edited by Saadi A. Simawe.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 2097.
- Garland reference library of the humanities. Border crossings ; v. 9.
- Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2097. Border crossings ; v. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--African American authors.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music and literature--History--20th century.
- Music and literature.
- History.
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Music.
- African American musicians in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Music in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 275 pages : music ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Garland Pub., 2000.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815331231
- OCLC:
- 43227374
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