The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction
by
Kristin K Henson
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Beyond the Sound Barrier examines twentieth-century fictional representations of popular music-particularly jazz-in the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison. Kristin K. Henson argues that an analysis of musical tropes in the work of these four authors...