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Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison
Title:
Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison
Author:
Simawe, Saadi.
Publication Information:
New York : Garland Pub., [2000]

©2000
Physical Description:
xxv, 275 pages : music ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Series editor's foreword / Daniel Albright -- Introduction: the agency of sound in African American fiction / Saadi A. Simawe -- Singing the unsayable: theorizing music in Dessa Rose / Jacquelyn A. Fox-Good -- Claude McKay: music, sexuality, and literary cosmopolitanism / Tom Lutz -- Black moves, white way, every body's blues: orphic power in Langston Hughes's The ways of white folks / Jane Olmsted -- Black and blue: the female body of blues writing in Jean Toomer, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones / Katherine Boutry -- That old black magic? Gender and music in Ann Petry's fiction / Johanna X.K. Garvey -- "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing": jazz's many uses for Toni Morrison / Alan J. Rice -- Shange and her three sisters "sing a liberation song": variations on the orphic theme / Maria V. Johnson -- Nathaniel Mackey's unit structures / Joseph Allen -- Shamans of song: music and the politics of culture in Alice Walker's early fiction / Saadi A. Simawe.
Reading Level:
1420 Lexile.
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780815331230
Format :
Book