Beyond the Sound Barrier : The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
ISBN-10
0415943000
ISBN-13
9780415943000
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 28th, 2003
Print length
168 Pages
Weight
363 grams
Product Classification:
MusicLiterary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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This work analyses twentieth century fictional representations of popular music in the novels of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maxine Hong Kingston and Toni Morrison, as a culturally fused, boundary crossing form of expression.
Beyond the Sound Barrier examines twentieth-century fictional representations of popular music-particularly jazz-in the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison. Kristin K. Henson argues that an analysis of musical tropes in the work of these four authors suggests that cultural "mixing" constitutes one of the central preoccupations of modernist literature. Valuable for any reader interested in the intersections between American literature and the history of American popular music, Henson situates the literary use of popular music as a culturally amalgamated, boundary-crossing form of expression that reflects and defines modern American identities.
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