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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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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