Spiritual, blues, and jazz people in African American fiction
Subtitle: living in paradox
By: A. Yemisi Jimoh.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; African American musicians in literature.; Musical fiction -- History and criticism.; African Americans -- Intellectual life.; Spirituals (Songs) in literature.; African Americans in literature.; Jazz musicians in literature.; Blues (Music) in literature.; Music and literature.; Music in literature.; Jazz in literature.
Description: "In this book, A. Yemisi Jimoh demonstrates the critical influence of music on the fiction of various twentieth-century African American writers. Exploring novels and short stories by Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and others, Jimoh shows how black musical traditions - specifically Spirituals, Blues, and Jazz - are used to shape characterizations and thematic content and to evince ideas, emotions, and experiences."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-262) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : we'll understand it better by and by; title: Muddy Waters : music in African American fiction; title: Stormy blues : from the folk into literary form; title: These (blackness of blackness) blues; title: Dizzy atmosphere; title: Jazz me blues : reading music in James Baldwin's "Sonny's blues"; title: Conclusion : toward a stopping place.