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Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison

Author: Saadi Simawe
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub., 2000.
Series: Garland reference library of the humanities, v. 2097.; Garland reference library of the humanities., Border crossings ;, v. 9.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Saadi Simawe
ISBN: 0815331231 9780815331230
OCLC Number: 43227374
Description: xxv, 275 p. : music ; 23 cm.
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.
Series Title: Garland reference library of the humanities, v. 2097.; Garland reference library of the humanities., Border crossings ;, v. 9.
Responsibility: edited by Saadi A. Simawe.
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