This is the first comprehensive historical analysis of how black music and musicians have been represented in the fiction of African American writers. It also e

Originally published in 1995, The Music of African American Fiction is a historical analysis of the tradition of representing music in African American fiction.

The Songs Became the Stories: The Music in African-American Fiction, 1970-2005 is a sequel to The Music in African-American Fiction, which traced the representa

In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its power as a medium of freedom. This coll