Swinging the vernacular
Subtitle: jazz and African American modernist literature
By: Michael Borshuk
Series: Studies in African American history and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Music and literature -- History -- 20th century; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; African Americans in literature; Jazz in literature
Description: This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to the social and aesthetic significance of stylistic changes in the music. --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index
Table of contents: title: Langston Hughes and the first book of jazz; title: Thriving on a riff : bebop and Langston Hughes's Montage of a dream deferred; title: Riffing on the lower frequencies : dialogism, intertextuality, and bebop in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man; title: "Here where Coltrane is" : jazz, cultural memory, and political aesthetics in the poetry of Michael S. Harper; title: Albert Murray brings it on home : revisioning black modernism in Train whistle guitar