The Music in African American Fiction

Robert H. Cataliotti

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Routledge
30 October 2018

Music: styles & genres; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Black & Asian studies

Series: Routledge Library Editions: African American Literature

Originally published in 1995, The Music of African American Fiction is a historical analysis of the tradition of representing music in African American fiction. The book examines the impact of evolving musical styles and innovative musicians on black culture as is manifested in the literature. The analysis begins with the slave narratives and the emergence of the first black fiction of the antebellum years and moves through the Reconstruction. This is followed by analyses of definitive fictional representations of African American music from the turn-of-the-century through Harlem Renaissance, the Depression and World War II eras through the 1960s and the Black Arts Movement. The representation of black music shapes a lineage that extends from the initial chronicles written in response to sub-human bondage to the declarations of an autonomous ""black aesthetic"" and dramatically influences the evolution of an African American literary tradition.

Edited by: Robert H. Cataliotti
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 2
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138389472
ISBN 10: 1138389471
Series: Routledge Library Editions: African American Literature
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 30 October 2018
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction Acknowledgements Part I: ""They Sang a Song of Triumph 1. ""Go Sound the Jubilee"": Slave Narratives 2. ""Uplifting the Race"" Part II: ""Depths to Which Mere Sound Had No Business to Go"" 3. ""The Most Treasured Heritage of the American Negro"" 4. ""Their Joy Runs, Bang! Into Ecstasy"" Part III: ""The Only True History of the Times"" 5. ""Not Many People Ever Really Hear It"" 6. ""The Brother Does Not [Does] Sing Part IV: ""The Length of the Music Was the Only Form"" 7. ""There Must be Some People Who Lived for Music"" 8. ""The Sound Baked Inside Their Heads"" Coda: ""What Good is a Liturgy Without a Text?"" Selected Bibliography Selected Discography Index"

Robert H. Cataliotti