Jazz in the time of the novel : the temporal politics of American race and culture / Bruce Barnhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnhart, Bruce, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Jazz in literature.

Music in literature.

Rhythm in literature.

Time in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jazz in the Time of the Novel argues that a culture's understanding of the concept of time plays a central role in its economic, social, and aesthetic affairs and that a culture arrives at its conception of time through its artistic practices. Bruce Barnhart, in Jazz in the Time of the Novel, shows that American culture of the first three decades of the twentieth century was shaped by the kindred rhythms and movements of two particular art forms: jazz and fiction. At the beginning of the twentieth century, widespread changes in America's social, demogr

Contents:

Jazz and the novel in the cultural and imaginative landscape

Music, race, and sublimation: ragtime and symphonic time in the autobiography of an ex-colored man

"Carolina shout" and the rhythms of rent-party performance

Forms of repetition and jazz sociality in The Great Gatsby

Vibratory time in Smith and Armstrong's "St. Louis Blues"

Rhythmicizing the novel: temporal taxonomies from Larsen to Hemingway, Stein to Hughe.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 4, 2013).

ISBN:

0-8173-8690-4

OCLC:

861200414