The jazz trope
Subtitle: a theory of African American literary and vernacular culture
By: Alfonso W. Hawkins, Jr.
Series: African American cultural theory -- 1
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780810861268
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Jazz in literature; Music and literature
Description: "The Jazz Trope looks at the African American lifestyle through the lens of jazz, blues, and spirituals and pays homage to the pioneering efforts of Albert Murray, Ralph Ellison, Houston Baker, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, and other notable scholars who have related music to African American life and culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Booker T. Washington : Up from slavery in the valley of the shadow of death; title: Jazz as exoticism; title: Zora Neale Hurston and Billie Holiday : improvisation through interpretation; title: Lamentations or the blues : the proverbial moan; title: The elusive undertone : a nonnegotiable performance of time, text, and melody; title: A jazz schematic : the concluding Naturalistic trope.