Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Garland Pub.,
2000.
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| Series: | Garland reference library of the humanities ; Border crossings ;
v. 2097. |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=80427 |
Table of 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.