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Jazz internationalism : literary Afro-modernism and the cultural politics of black music / John Lowney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowney, John, 1957- author.
- Series:
- New Black studies series
- New black studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- Jazz in literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- United States.
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Music.
- Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Black nationalism.
- History.
- African Americans--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 227 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Jazz Internationalism offers a bold reconsideration of jazz's influence in Afro-modernist literature. Ranging from the New Negro Renaissance through the social movements of the 1960s, John Lowney articulates nothing less than a new history of Afro-modernist jazz writing. Jazz added immeasurably to the vocabulary for discussing radical internationalism and black modernism in leftist African American literature. Lowney examines how Claude McKay, Ann Petry, Langston Hughes, and many other writers employed jazz as both a critical social discourse and mode of artistic expression to explore the possibilities "and challenges "of black internationalism. The result is an expansive understanding of jazz writing sure to spur new debates"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 "Harlem Jazzing": Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, and Jazz Internationalism 27
- 2 "Black Man's Verse": The Black Chicago Renaissance and the Popular Front Jazz Poetics of Frank Marshall Davis 59
- 3 "Do You Sing for a Living?": Ann Petry, The Street, and the Gender Politics of World War II Jazz / 89
- 4 "Cultural Exchange": Cold War Jazz and the Political Aesthetics of Langston Hughes's Long Poems 111
- 5 "A Silent Beat in Between the Drums": Bebop, Post-Bop, and the Black Beat Poetics of Bob Kaufman 131.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lowney, John, 1957- author. Jazz internationalism
- ISBN:
- 9780252041334
- 025204133X
- 9780252082863
- 0252082869
- OCLC:
- 983823871
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