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| Race, Music, and National Identity: Images of Jazz in American Fiction, 1920-1960 |
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Author - Paul McCann
Publication Date - January 2009
Number of Pages - 192
ISBN #9780838641408
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| Description |
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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. The jazz narrative became one of the means through which this paradigm shift was justified to an American audience.
Jazz might strike many readers as a subject only for aficionados, but this book is accessible to a broad audience. It is aimed at casual fans of jazz music curious about the music's broader role in the cultural development of the United States and the interplay between jazz and American fiction.
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| Author/Editor Biographies |
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Paul McCann was born in College Station, TX, where he recently received his PhD from Texas A&M University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Delmar College. As a graduate student, he was awarded the Gordone Award for drama. He has written several articles on jazz and American literature, and his poetry and scholarship have appeared in Bayou, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Explicator, Studies in American Culture, and the Berkeley Poetry Review. He now lives and writes in Corpus Christi, TX.
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