Swinging the vernacular : jazz and African American modernist literature /
Borshuk, Michael.
New York ; London : Routledge,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index.
Langston Hughes and the first book of jazz -- Thriving on a riff : bebop and Langston Hughes's Montage of a dream deferred -- Riffing on the lower frequencies : dialogism, intertextuality, and bebop in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- "Here where Coltrane is" : jazz, cultural memory, and political aesthetics in the poetry of Michael S. Harper -- Albert Murray brings it on home : revisioning black modernism in Train whistle guitar.
American literature
African Americans
Music and literature
Modernism (Literature)
African Americans in literature.
Jazz in literature.