Cross-Rhythms: Jazz Aesthetics in African-American Literature (Continuum Literary Studies)

by KerenOmry (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $227.66

  Uses close analysis of key African-American literary texts to investigate the links between the development of blues and jazz and the development of modern African-American literature. This study also examines the highly varied manifestations of a jazz aesthetic as possibly the fundamental common demoninator which links these writers.