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BL
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Record Number
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1034998
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b789368
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Title & Author
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Black Orpheus : : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison /\ edited by Saadi A. Simawe.
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Publication Statement
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New York :: Garland Pub.,, 2000.
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Series Statement
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Garland reference library of the humanities ;; v. 2097.Border crossings ;; v. 9
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Page. NO
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1 online resource (xxviii, 275 pages) :: music
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ISBN
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0203904400
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: 0203904419
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: 0203904443
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: 0815331231
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: 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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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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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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Abstract
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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.
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Subject
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African American musicians in literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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Subject
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African Americans-- Music-- History and criticism.
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American fiction-- African American authors-- History and criticism.
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Subject
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Music and literature-- History-- 20th century.
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Music in literature.
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Musical fiction-- History and criticism.
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Musiciens noirs américains dans la littérature.
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Musique dans la littérature.
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Musique et littérature-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
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Noirs américains dans la littérature.
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Noirs américains-- Musique-- Histoire et critique.
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Roman américain-- Auteurs noirs américains-- Histoire et critique.
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Subject
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Roman américain-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Subject
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African American musicians in literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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Subject
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African Americans-- Music.
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American fiction-- African American authors.
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American fiction.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Subject
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Literatur
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Subject
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Music and literature.
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Subject
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Music in literature.
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Musical fiction.
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Subject
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Musik
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Subject
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Schwarze
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Schwarze.
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Subject
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USA.
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Subject
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USA.
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Dewey Classification
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813/.509357
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LC Classification
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PS374.N4B59 2000eb
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NLM classification
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HU 1691rvk
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HU 1728rvk
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LR 57710rvk
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Added Entry
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Simawe, Saadi.
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