Jazz Internationalism : Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music /

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"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
Autor principal: Lowney, John, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Modernism (Literature)
Jazz in literature.
Black nationalism.
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
African Americans > Music.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Jazz.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
Noirs americains > Moeurs et coutumes > 20e siecle.
Nationalisme noir > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Modernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Jazz dans la litterature.
African Americans > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Black nationalism > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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 immeasurably to the vocabulary for discussing radical internationalism and black modernism in leftist African American literature. Lowney examines how Claude McKay, Ann Petry, Langston Hughes, and many other writers employed jazz as both a critical social discourse and mode of artistic expression to explore the possibilities "and challenges "of black internationalism. The result is an expansive understanding of jazz writing sure to spur new debates"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (246 pages).
ISBN:9780252099939

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