عنوان

Black Orpheus :

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0203904400

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0203904419

(Number (ISBN

0203904443

(Number (ISBN

0815331231

(Number (ISBN

6610407355

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9780203904404

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9780203904411

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9780203904442

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9780815331230

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9786610407354

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b789368

Title Proper

Black Orpheus :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Saadi A. Simawe.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Garland Pub.,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2000.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxviii, 275 pages) :

Other Physical Details

music

Series Title

Border crossings ;

Volume Designation

v. 9

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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.

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Text of Note

In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its power as a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations of music.

Title

Black Orpheus.

International Standard Book Number

0815331231

African American musicians in literature.

African Americans in literature.

African Americans-- Music-- History and criticism.

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

American fiction-- African American authors-- History and criticism.

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

Music in literature.

Musical fiction-- History and criticism.

Musiciens noirs américains dans la littérature.

Musique dans la littérature.

Musique et littérature-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.

Noirs américains dans la littérature.

Noirs américains-- Musique-- Histoire et critique.

Roman américain-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.

Roman américain-- Auteurs noirs américains-- Histoire et critique.

African American musicians in literature.

African Americans in literature.

African Americans-- Music.

American fiction-- African American authors.

American fiction.

Aufsatzsammlung

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

Literatur

Music and literature.

Music in literature.

Musical fiction.

Musik

Schwarze

Schwarze.

USA.

USA.

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LIT-- 004020

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Edition

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Book number

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System Code

Simawe, Saadi.

Date of Transaction

20201207025114.0

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