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

Other author Simawe, Saadi.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Garland Pub., 2000.
Descriptionxxv, 275 pages : music ; 23 cm.
Subjects
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.
African American musicians in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Music in literature.

SeriesGarland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2097. Border crossings ; v. 9
Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 2097. ^A654521
Garland reference library of the humanities. Border crossings ; v. 9. ^A412072
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99086215
ISBN0815331231 (acid-free paper)