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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lowney, John, 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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