Race, Music, and National Identity: Images of Jazz in American Fiction, 1920-1960

by Paul McCann

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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611473632
• ISBN13: 9781611473636
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"