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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative /

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Main Author: Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Negers.
Esthetica.
Bellettrie.
Jazz.
Ästhetik
Jazz
Jazz > Motiv
Literatur
Narration (Rhetoric)
Music and literature.
Jazz in literature.
Autobiography > African American authors.
American prose literature > African American authors.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
African American aesthetics.
Prose americaine > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
Musique et litterature > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Narration > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Esthetique noire americaine.
Jazz dans la litterature.
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Music and literature > History > 20th century.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 20th century.
Jazz > History and criticism.
Verenigde Staten.
Schwärze
USA
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: So what?
  • The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle
  • "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street
  • Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka
  • Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic
  • Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.

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