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Jazz in the Time of the Novel - The Temporal Politics of American Race and Culture (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Jazz in the Time of the Novel - The Temporal Politics of American Race and Culture (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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"Jazz in the Time of the Novel" argues that a culture's
understanding of the concept of time plays a central role in its
economic, social, and aesthetic affairs and that a culture arrives
at its conception of time through its artistic practices. Bruce
Barnhart, in "Jazz in the Time of the Novel, " shows that American
culture of the first three decades of the twentieth century was
shaped by the kindred rhythms and movements of two particular art
forms: jazz and fiction. At the beginning of the twentieth century,
widespread changes in America's social, demographic, and economic
norms threatened longstanding faith in a unified and inevitable
movement towards a better future. As Barnhart shows both jazz and
novels of the period address these temporal uncertainties,
inserting themselves into arguments about the proper unfolding of
an affirmative American future. Barnhart proposes that these two
aesthetic forms can be viewed as co-participants in an ongoing
discussion about the way in which the future should be imagined and
experienced--a discussion symptomatic of the broader exchanges
taking place within the many trajectories comprising early
twentieth-century American culture. This book includes in-depth
approaches to numerous examples of jazz and the novel, including
performances by James P. Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith,
Duke Ellington, and Ethel Waters, and novels by James Weldon
Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and
Nella Larsen, among others. In addition to the details of specific
musical and literary works, "Jazz in the Time of the Novel" offers
careful consideration as to how these works impact their social
context.
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