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Race, Music, and National Identity: Images of Jazz in American Fiction, 1920-1960
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from Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr (January 31, 2009)
9780838641408 | details & prices | 192 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $42.00
About: "Race, Music, and National Identity" is the first book-length study to examine closely the portrayal of jazz in American fiction during the most critical and dynamic years of the music's development.
from Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr (January 31, 2009)
9781611473636 | details & prices | 192 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $70.00
About: This study demonstrates that jazz as it appeared in narrative fiction was often used as a forum to address the nation's anxieties in the turbulent years during which the United States gradually changed from a nation dedicated to an isolationist policy to a superpower likely to intervene in foreign conflicts.