Title Beyond the sound barrier : the jazz controversy in twentieth-century American fiction / Kristin K. Henson

Published New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 159 pages) Series Literary criticism and cultural theory Literary criticism and cultural theory. Contents Cover; Original Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE A sympathetic, singing instrument: Musical Tropes and Cultural Fusion in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography if an Ex-Coloured Man; CHAPTER TWO A big sensation -- CHAPTER THREE Musical Range: Langston Hughes's The Ways of White Folks; CHAPTER FOUR Only in the head of a musician: The Powers of Music in Toni Morrison's Jazz; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index Notes Print version record Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Jazz in literature. American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Music and literature -- History -- 20th century Musical fiction -- History and criticism African American musicians in literature. Jazz musicians in literature. Music in literature. Race in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African American musicians in literature African Americans -- Intellectual life American fiction American fiction -- African American authors Jazz in literature Jazz musicians in literature Music and literature Music in literature Musical fiction Race in literature Literatur Jazz Motiv USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781136726804 1136726802

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