Beyond the Sound Barrier

The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music
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Author: Kristin K Henson ISBN: 9781136726804
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: December 16, 2013
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Kristin K Henson
ISBN: 9781136726804
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: December 16, 2013
Imprint: Routledge
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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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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