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images of jazz in American fiction, 1920-1960
Music of corruption : jazz as social threat in the early twenties -- "Some finer thing" : jazz amid the culture wars of the late twenties -- The market of music : jazz and the Great Depression in the Harlem Renaissance -- White jazz : a primitive commodity -- Defining a nation : jazz and American identity in the early forties -- Music of contradictions : reconciling U.S. domestic and foreign identities -- "Gin, jazz, and dreams" : cultivating the hipster aesthetic in Ellison, Mailer, and Beaumont -- A racial paradise : the ambiguity of identity in The horn by John Clellon Holmes and On the road by Jack Kerouac.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-187) and index.
National characteristics, American, in literature