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- catalog abstract ""In this book, A. Yemisi Jimoh demonstrates the critical influence of music on the fiction of various twentieth-century African American writers. Exploring novels and short stories by Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and others, Jimoh shows how black musical traditions - specifically Spirituals, Blues, and Jazz - are used to shape characterizations and thematic content and to evince ideas, emotions, and experiences."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12546584.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""In this book, A. Yemisi Jimoh demonstrates the critical influence of music on the fiction of various twentieth-century African American writers. Exploring novels and short stories by Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and others, Jimoh shows how black musical traditions - specifically Spirituals, Blues, and Jazz - are used to shape characterizations and thematic content and to evince ideas, emotions, and experiences."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-262) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Introduction : we'll understand it better by and by -- Muddy Waters : music in African American fiction -- Stormy blues : from the folk into literary form -- These (blackness of blackness) blues -- Dizzy atmosphere -- Jazz me blues : reading music in James Baldwin's "Sonny's blues" -- Conclusion : toward a stopping place.".
- catalog extent "viii, 284 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1572331720 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,".
- catalog subject "813.009/896073 21".
- catalog subject "African American musicians in literature.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "American fiction African American authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Blues (Music) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Jazz in literature.".
- catalog subject "Jazz musicians in literature.".
- catalog subject "Music and literature.".
- catalog subject "Music in literature.".
- catalog subject "Musical fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS374.N4 J56 2002".
- catalog subject "Spirituals (Songs) in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : we'll understand it better by and by -- Muddy Waters : music in African American fiction -- Stormy blues : from the folk into literary form -- These (blackness of blackness) blues -- Dizzy atmosphere -- Jazz me blues : reading music in James Baldwin's "Sonny's blues" -- Conclusion : toward a stopping place.".
- catalog title "Spiritual, blues, and jazz people in African American fiction : living in paradox / A. Yemisi Jimoh.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".