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African American cultural studies
African American literary history
African American literature and jazz
African American modernism and literature
African diaspora
African roots of black music
Afro-modernism
Ann Petry
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bebop
Black Atlantic
Black Chicago Renaissance
black internationalism
black modernism and jazz
blues
Bob Kaufman
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Claude McKay
Communism
cultural significance of jazz
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feminism
Frank Marshall Davis
Harlem Renaissance
improvisation
jazz
jazz history
jazz influence on literature
jazz literature
jazz poetry
jazz writing and leftist politics
jazz's radicalism
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes and jazz
Long Civil Rights Movement
migration and immigration
New Negro Renaissance and jazz
Paule Marshall
Popular Front
radical African American writing
swing
the Beat movement
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780252082863
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 2017
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jazz emerged during the political and social upheaval of world war, communist revolution, Red Scares, and the Black Migration. The tumult bred disagreements about the cultural significance of jazz that concerned both its African American roots and its international appeal. The questions about what was new or even radical about the music initiated debates that writers recapitulated for decades.
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.
John Lowney is a professor of English at St. John's University. He is the author of The American Avant-Garde Tradition: William Carlos Williams, Postmodern Poetry, and the Politics of Cultural Memory and History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968.
