It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read Beyond the Sound Barrier by Kristin K Henson
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Beyond the Sound Barrier examines twentieth-century fictional representations of popular music-particularly jazz-in the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison. Kristin K. Henson 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. Valuable for any reader interested in the intersections between American literature and the history of American popular music, Henson situates the literary use of popular music as a culturally...
Beyond the Sound Barrier by Kristin K Henson is 168 pages long, and a total of 43,344 words.
This makes it 57% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read Beyond the Sound Barrier aloud.
Beyond the Sound Barrier is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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