Race, music, and national identity : images of jazz in American fiction, 1920-1960 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McCann, Paul, 1971-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2008]
Subjects:	American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Jazz in literature. Race in literature. Music and literature > History > 20th century. National characteristics, American, in literature. Musical fiction > History and criticism. Music in literature.

Table of Contents:

Music of corruption : jazz as social threat in the early twenties
"Some finer thing" : jazz amid the culture wars of the late twenties
The market of music : jazz and the Great Depression in the Harlem Renaissance
White jazz : a primitive commodity
Defining a nation : jazz and American identity in the early forties
Music of contradictions : reconciling U.S. domestic and foreign identities
"Gin, jazz, and dreams" : cultivating the hipster aesthetic in Ellison, Mailer, and Beaumont
A racial paradise : the ambiguity of identity in The horn by John Clellon Holmes and On the road by Jack Kerouac.