Black Orpheus
Subtitle: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 12, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780815331230
Subjects: African studies; Contemporary popular music; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers; Intellectual life; Black Musicians And Their Music; Music; African American Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; USA; Ethnic; American - African American & Black; Ethnomusicology; History & Criticism - General; Music / General; African American authors; American - African American; 20th century; African Americans; American fiction; History and criticism
First sentence: Near the middle of her autobiography, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), Maya Angelou tells the story of her eighth-grade graduation.