Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude: So what?
  • The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle
  • "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street
  • Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka
  • Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic
  • Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.