First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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

The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and

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

Jimoh (English, U. of Arkansas-Fayetteville) investigates African American intracultural issues that inform a more broadly intertextual use of music in creating