The Songs Became the Stories: The Music in

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 representation of music in fiction from its mid-nineteenth-century roots in slave narrative

Robert H. Cataliotti is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Coppin State University in Baltimore.

Preface: "the opener": the tradition of representing music in African-American literature
"What good is a liturgy without a text?"
"Synthesizing the hoodoo of voodoo ": the music as [dis]embodied hero in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo jumbo	p. 3
"Sing a little somethin for me" : the music as history lesson in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon	p. 17
"Beautiful and colored and alive, all at the same time"
"A way of life" : coming-of-age through music in Al Young's Snakes & Ntozake Shange's Betsey Brown	p. 33
"I wanna do it again" : rejuvenation through music in Walter Mosley's RL's dream & Bebe Moore Campbell's Singing in the comeback choir	p. 53
"It launches our vision by way of our ears"
"My feeling ways" : the blues woman as representative figure in Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Toni Cade Bambara's "Witchbird" & Alice Walker's The color purple	p. 77
"Every tune does tell a story" : jazz as creative model in Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues & Nathaniel Mackey's Bedouin hornbook, Djbot Baghostus's run & Atet A.D.	p. 99
"Where out of your life did it come from?"
"They want what you got but they don't want you" : black music & white America in Toni Morrison's Jazz & Alice Walker's "Nineteen fifty-five"	p. 127
"The goddamnedest world-beatingest American" : the blues hero in Albert Murray's Train whistle guitar, The spyglass tree, The seven league boots, & The magic keys	p. 143
"Everybody joining in now -- all the voices" : music, communal language, and identity in John Edgar Wideman's The Homewood trilogy	p. 159
Coda: "As necessary, as natural as a heartbeat"	p. 185
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The Songs Became the Stories: The Music in African-American Fiction, 1970-2005

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