Title: Spiritual, blues, and jazz people in African American fiction
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.
Subjects: African American authors, African American musicians in literature, African Americans, African Americans in literature, American fiction, Blues (Music) in literature, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Jazz in literature, Jazz musicians in literature, Music and literature, Music in literature, Musical fiction, Spirituals (Songs) in literature, American fiction, african american authors, history and criticism, African americans in literature