Race, music, and national identity : images of jazz in American fiction, 1920-1960 / Paul McCann.

Author/creator McCann, Paul, 1971-
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2008.
Description192 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
Jazz in literature.
Race in literature.
Music and literature--History. --20th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Musical fiction--History and criticism.
Music in literature.

Contents Music of corruption : jazz as social threat in the early twenties -- "Some finer thing" : jazz amid the culture wars of the late twenties -- The market of music : jazz and the Great Depression in the Harlem Renaissance -- White jazz : a primitive commodity -- Defining a nation : jazz and American identity in the early forties -- Music of contradictions : reconciling U.S. domestic and foreign identities -- "Gin, jazz, and dreams" : cultivating the hipster aesthetic in Ellison, Mailer, and Beaumont -- A racial paradise : the ambiguity of identity in The horn by John Clellon Holmes and On the road by Jack Kerouac.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171-187) and index.
LCCN 2008017537
ISBN0838641407 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780838641408 (hbk. : alk. paper)