A01=Robert H. Cataliotti
African American culture
African American Fiction
African American Folk
African American Folk Culture
African American Folk Tradition
African American Literary Tradition
African American Music
African American Oral Tradition
African American Sensibility
Author_Robert H. Cataliotti
Banner Club
Black Arts Movement
Black Folk Culture
Black Literary Tradition
black music
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Category=JHM
Contending Forces
Drama Baraka
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Ex-Coloured Man
Freedom Day
Harlem Renaissance
Hell Man
Invisible Man
Jes Grew
Tea Cake
Uncle Tom's Children
Uncle Tom’s Children
White America
William Wells Brown
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815323303
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is the first comprehensive historical analysis of how black music and musicians have been represented in the fiction of African American writers. It also examines how music and musicians in fiction have exemplified the sensibilities of African Americans and provided paradigms for an African American literary tradition.
The fictional representation of African American music by black authors is traced from the nineteenth century (William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, Pauline E. Hopkins, Paul Laurence Dunbar) through the early twentieth century and the Harlem Renaissance (James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston) to the 1940s and 50s (Richard Wright, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison) and the 1960s and the Black Arts Movement (Margaret Walker, William Melvin Kelley, Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Henry Dumas). In the century between Brown and Baraka, the representation of music in black fiction went through a dramatic metamorphosis. Music occupied a representative role in African American culture from which writers drew ideas and inspiration. The music provided a way out of a limited situation by offering a viable option to the strictures of racism. Individuals who overcome these limitations then become role models in the struggle toward equality. African American musical forms-for both artist and audience-also offerd a way of looking at the world, survival, and resistance. The black musician became a ritual leader. This study delineates how black writers have captured the spirit of the music that played such a pivotal role in African American culture. (Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1993; revised with new preface and index)
