Title Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison / edited by Saadi A. Simawe.

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New York : Garland Pub., 2000.

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Description	1 online resource (xxviii, 275 pages) : music.
Series	Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2097. Border crossings ; v. 9
	Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 2097.
	Garland reference library of the humanities. Border crossings ; v. 9.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Series editor's foreword / Daniel Albright -- Introduction: the agency of sound in African American fiction / Saadi A. Simawe -- Singing the unsayable: theorizing music in Dessa Rose / Jacquelyn A. Fox-Good -- Claude McKay: music, sexuality, and literary cosmopolitanism / Tom Lutz -- Black moves, white way, every body's blues: orphic power in Langston Hughes's The ways of white folks / Jane Olmsted -- Black and blue: the female body of blues writing in Jean Toomer, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones / Katherine Boutry -- That old black magic? Gender and music in Ann Petry's fiction / Johanna X.K. Garvey -- "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing": jazz's many uses for Toni Morrison / Alan J. Rice -- Shange and her three sisters "sing a liberation song": variations on the orphic theme / Maria V. Johnson -- Nathaniel Mackey's unit structures / Joseph Allen -- Shamans of song: music and the politics of culture in Alice Walker's early fiction / Saadi A. Simawe.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its power as a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations of music.
Subject	American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Music and literature -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
	Musical fiction -- History and criticism.
	African American musicians in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Music in literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	African American musicians in literature. (OCoLC)fst00799276
	African Americans in literature. (OCoLC)fst00799727
	African Americans -- Music. (OCoLC)fst00799648
	American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
	American fiction -- African American authors. (OCoLC)fst00807049
	Music and literature. (OCoLC)fst01030479
	Music in literature. (OCoLC)fst01030552
	Musical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01030713
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Simawe, Saadi.
Other Form:	Print version: Black Orpheus. New York : Garland Pub., 2000 0815331231 (DLC) 99086215 (OCoLC)43227374
ISBN	0203904419 (electronic bk.)
	9780203904411 (electronic bk.)
	9780203904404 (electronic bk. ;) (Adobe Reader)
	0203904400 (electronic bk. ;) (Adobe Reader)

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