Omry Keren:
Cross-Rhythms
Jazz Aesthetics In African-American Literature
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (United Kingdom), 2008
Hardback, 192 pages
Size: 234x156 mm
ISBN: 9780826497437
ISBN-10: 0826497438
Cross-Rhythms
Uses close analysis of key African-American literary texts to investigate the links between the development of blues and jazz and the development of modern African-American literature. This study also examines the highly varied manifestations of a jazz aesthetic as possibly the fundamental common demoninator which links these writers.

