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Beyond the Sound Barrier: The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction

Beyond the Sound Barrier: The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction

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Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Literary CriticismGeneral Music

ISBN10: 0415943000
ISBN13: 9780415943000
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 28 2003
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
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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