Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature

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Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature is written by Steven C. Tracy and published by University of Alabama Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0817318658 (ISBN 10) and 9780817318659 (ISBN 13).

Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature examines the diverse ways in which African American "hot" music influenced American culture - particularly literature - in early twentieth-century America. Steven C. Tracy provides a history of the fusion of African and European elements that formed African American "hot" music, and considers how terms like ragtime, jazz, and blues developed their own particular meanings for American music and society. He draws from the fields of literature, literary criticism, cultural anthropology, American studies, and folklore to demonstrate how blues as a musical and poetic form has been a critical influence on American literature. -- from dust jacket.