Beyond the Sound Barrier: The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction
Author:   Kristin K Henson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138964631


Pages:   168
Publication Date:   03 March 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Beyond the Sound Barrier: The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction


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Beyond the Sound Barrier examines twentieth-century fictional representations of popular music-particularly jazz-in the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison. Kristin K. Henson argues that an analysis of musical tropes in the work of these four authors suggests that cultural ""mixing"" constitutes one of the central preoccupations of modernist literature. Valuable for any reader interested in the intersections between American literature and the history of American popular music, Henson situates the literary use of popular music as a culturally amalgamated, boundary-crossing form of expression that reflects and defines modern American identities.

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Author:   Kristin K Henson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138964631


ISBN 10:   1138964638
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   03 March 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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