This book examines twentieth-century fictional representations of jazz and related popular music in the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison. It argues that an analysis of musical tropes in the work of these four authors suggests that cultural "mixing" constitutes one of the central preoccupations of modernist literature, and situates the literary use of popular music as a culturally amalgamated, boundary-crossing form of expression that reflects and defines modern American identities. 2003 edition. Part of the Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Outstanding Dissertations series. Condition: Boards shelfworn, slightly marked; pages clean and readable and binding tight.