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Palgrave MacMillan Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America Noteworthy Protagonists 2014 Edition by Marco Katz Montiel
Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada. Table of contents :- Preface: Tuning Up Introduction: Overture PART I: FIRST MOVEMENT: NUMBERS, MUSIC, AND THE REALITY OF GABRIEL GARC?A MARQUEZ 1. Exposition: Literary and Musical Themes 2. Development: Dissonant Confrontations PART II: INTERMEZZO: MUSICAL SEGMENTALIZING PART III: SECOND MOVEMENT: MEANWHILE, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CARIBBEAN 3. Theme: Alejo Carpentier Sets the Stage 4. Variations: Hurston and Carpentier's Caribbean Counterpoint PART IV: THIRD MOVEMENT: STRETCHING THE NORTHERN BOUNDARIES OF AMERICA 5. Scherzo: ID Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got that Swing 6. Rondo: John Okada Returns to America and Returns to America and Returns . . . PART V: CODA: MORE POSSIBILITIES FOR DISCOVERING MUSIC IN AMERICAN LITERATURE Conclusion: Exit Music: A Marvelous Future