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Race, music, and national identity : images of jazz in American fiction, 1920-1960 / Paul McCann.
Van Pelt Library PS374.J38 M33 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCann, Paul, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Jazz in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Music and literature--History--20th century.
- Music and literature.
- History.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Musical fiction--History and criticism.
- Musical fiction.
- Music in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Music of corruption : jazz as social threat in the early twenties
- "Some finer thing" : jazz amid the culture wars of the late twenties
- The market of music : jazz and the Great Depression in the Harlem Renaissance
- White jazz : a primitive commodity
- Defining a nation : jazz and American identity in the early forties
- Music of contradictions : reconciling U.S. domestic and foreign identities
- "Gin, jazz, and dreams" : cultivating the hipster aesthetic in Ellison, Mailer, and Beaumont
- A racial paradise : the ambiguity of identity in The horn by John Clellon Holmes and On the road by Jack Kerouac.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-187) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780838641408
- 0838641407
- OCLC:
- 225847013
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