"The Swing's the Thing": literary legacies of 1920s jazz

Jones, Bethan

Abstract

This article analyses the way in which jazz sounds and styles have been assimilated into the works of prominent contemporary writers.

Citation

Jones, B. (2020). "The Swing's the Thing": literary legacies of 1920s jazz. Yearbook of English Studies, 50, 132-149. https://doi.org/10.5699/yearenglstud.50.2020.0132

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Jul 16, 2020
• Publication Date: Jul 15, 2020
• Deposit Date: Oct 17, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 23, 2024
• Journal: Yearbook of English Studies
• Print ISSN: 0306-2473
• Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 50
• Pages: 132-149
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5699/yearenglstud.50.2020.0132
• Keywords: jazz, literature, modernism, 1920s, contemporary
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4867729
• Publisher URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/yearenglstud.50.2020.0132
• Additional Information: This issue was titled: 'Back to the twenties: modernism then and now'