First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Jimoh (English, U. of Arkansas-Fayetteville) investigates African American intracultural issues that inform a more broadly intertextual use of music in creating characters and themes in fiction by US black writers.
The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction Kristin K Henson ... alternative ways to be and to sound “modern” by looking to African and African American culture as a source of style.29 Often music provided a crucial entry ...
From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Robert G. O'Meally explores how the worlds of African American ...
Baker, Houston A., Jr. Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture. ... Cataliotti, Robert H. The Music in African American Fiction: Representing Music in African American Fiction. Routledge, 2019.
Tricia Rose , Black Noise : Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America ( Middletown , Conn .: Wesleyan University Press , 1994 ) , 1–2 . 1. " Rookie's Rapture : Sheneska Jackson Hits It Big.
Front row (from left), Joan Mattison Daniel, Elaine Means, Margaree Seawright Crosby, Dorris Wright, Hattie Smith Wright; second row, Jesse Jackson and Benjamin Downs; back row, Willie Joe Wright and attorneys Donald Sampson and Willie ...
With this work Gayl Jones has added a new dimension to African American literary history.
A guide to Black American authors from Dolores Abramson to Al Young contains listings of their novels and short fiction as well as noting book reviews, biographical studies, and critical...
Even in these works, in which African Americans are only minor characters, Wilson finds Chesnutt engaged with the conundrum of race and reveals him as one of America's most significant writers on the subject.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.