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Music and identity in twentieth century literature from our America :

1137433329

1137433337

9781137433329

9781137433336

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Music and identity in twentieth century literature from our America :

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noteworthy protagonists

Marco Katz Montiel.

Basingstoke

Palgrave Macmillan

2014

Literatures of the Americas

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; A Note to the Reader; Warming Up; Overture; Part I First Movement: Numbers, Music, and the Reality of Gabriel García Márquez; Chapter 1 Exposition: Literary and Musical Consonances; Chapter 2 Development: Dissonant Confrontations; Part II Intermezzo: Musical Segmentalizing; Part III Second Movement: Meanwhile, on the Other Side of the Caribbean; Chapter 3 Theme: Alejo Carpentier Sets the Stage; Chapter 4 Variations: Hurston and Carpentier's Caribbean Counterpoint; Part IV Third Movement: Stretching the Northern Boundaries of America. Chapter 5 Scherzo: ID Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That SwingChapter 6 Rondo: John Okada Returns to America and Returns to America and Returns ... ; Part V Coda: More Possibilities for Discovering Music in American Literature; Exit Music: A Marvelous Future; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada.

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Music and literature -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.

Music and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Marco Katz Montiel.

Marco Katz Montiel

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