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Jazz internationalism : literary Afro-modernism and the cultural politics of black music /

"Jazz Internationalism offers a bold reconsideration of jazz's influence in Afro-modernist literature. Ranging from the New Negro Renaissance through the social movements of the 1960s, John Lowney articulates nothing less than a new history of Afro-modernist jazz writing. Jazz added immeas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lowney, John, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Colección:New Black studies series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 "Harlem Jazzing": Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, and Jazz Internationalism
  • 2 "Black Man's Verse": The Black Chicago Renaissance and the Popular Front Jazz Poetics of Frank Marshall Davis
  • 3 "Do You Sing for a Living?": Ann Petry, The Street, and the Gender Politics of World War II Jazz
  • 4 "Cultural Exchange": Cold War Jazz and the Political Aesthetics of Langston Hughes's Long Poems
  • 5 "A Silent Beat in Between the Drums": Bebop, Post-Bop, and the Black Beat Poetics of Bob Kaufman
  • Conclusion "A New Kind of Music": Paule Marshall, The Fisher King, and the Dissonance of Diaspora
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.