The Songs Became the Stories
The Music in African-American Fiction, 1970–2005
©2007
Textbook
XVIII,
260 Pages
Series:
African-American Literature and Culture, Volume 14
Summary
The Songs Became the Stories: The Music in African-American Fiction, 1970–2005 is a sequel to The Music in African-American Fiction, which traced the representation of music in fiction from its mid-nineteenth-century roots in slave narratives through the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. The Songs Became the Stories continues the historical, critical and musicological analyses of the first book through an examination of many of the major figures in African-American fiction over the past thirty-five years, including Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Nathaniel Mackey, Alice Walker, Albert Murray and John Edgar Wideman. The volume also includes an extensive annotated discography and excerpts from first-hand interviews with major African-American musical artists.
Details
- Pages
- XVIII, 260
- Publication Year
- 2007
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9780820488509
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- USA Literatur Musik (Motiv) Schwarze Geschichte 1970-2005 African American literature Fiction Blues Jazz Gospel African American music Spiritual
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2007. XVIII, 260 pp.