A01=Kristin K Henson
African American Cultural
African American literature
African American Musical Styles
African American Musical Traditions
African Americans
Author_Kristin K Henson
Breaks Outs
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Chopin
Cultural Amalgamation
cultural hybridity
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Ex-Coloured Man
Fitzgerald's Fiction
God's Trombones
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Age
Jazz History
jazz influence in fiction
Johnson's Writing
literary identity formation
Louis Riot
modernism studies
Morrison's Jazz
Morrison's Writing
Mrican American
Mrican American Culture
music in literature
Musical Tropes
Popular Music
Ragtime Music
Tin Pan Alley
Twentieth Century American Fiction
twentieth century American novels
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138964631
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Beyond the Sound Barrier examines twentieth-century fictional representations of popular music-particularly jazz-in the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison. Kristin K. Henson argues that an analysis of musical tropes in the work of these four authors suggests that cultural "mixing" constitutes one of the central preoccupations of modernist literature. Valuable for any reader interested in the intersections between American literature and the history of American popular music, Henson situates the literary use of popular music as a culturally amalgamated, boundary-crossing form of expression that reflects and defines modern American identities.
