ISBN:
0838641407
,
9780838641408
Language:
English
Pages:
192 S.
,
24cm
DDC:
813/.509
Keywords:
American fiction History and criticism 20th century
;
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
;
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
;
Amerikanisches Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Jazz
;
Geschichte 〈1920-1960〉
;
Amerikanisches Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Geschichte 〈1920-1960〉
Description / 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
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