Race, music, and national identity
Subtitle: images of Jazz in American fiction, 1920-1960
By: Paul McCann.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780838641408
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Jazz in literature; Race in literature; Music and literature -- History -- 20th century; National characteristics, American, in literature; Musical fiction -- History and criticism; Music in literature; Race in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Music of corruption: jazz as social threat in the early twenties; title: "Some finer thing": jazz amid the culture wars of the late twenties; title: The market of music: jazz and the Great Depression in the Harlem Renaissance; title: White jazz: a primitive commodity; title: Defining a nation: jazz and American identity in the early forties; title: Music of contradictions: reconciling U.S. domestic and foreign identities; title: "Gin, jazz, and dreams": cultivating the hipster aesthetic in Ellison, Mailer, and Beaumont; title: A racial paradise: the ambiguity of Identity in The horn by John Clellon Holmes and On the road by Jack Kerouac.