Scarecrow Press
Pages: 292
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8108-5907-4 • Paperback • November 2007 • $78.00 • (£60.00)
David Rife is Professor Emeritus in English at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA, where he taught American literature and modern fiction for 35 years. He is a founding Associate editor of Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, and his writings have appeared in such publications as American Literary Realism, Annual Review of Jazz Studies, Journal of Modern Literature and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Part 1 Editor's Foreword
Part 2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 Part 1: From Music to Story
Chapter 4 1. Bibliographic Overview
Chapter 5 2. "Jazz" Fiction sans Music
Chapter 6 3. Fiction for Juveniles and Young Adults
Chapter 7 4. Women
Chapter 8 5. Works Based on the Lives of Actual Musicians
Chapter 9 6. Fantasy and Science Fiction
Chapter 10 7. Mystery and Crime
Chapter 11 8. Immigrant and International
Chapter 12 9. For Further Reading
Part 13 Part 2: Jazz Fiction by Select Categories
Part 14 Part 3: Jazz Fiction Short-Lists
Part 15 Part 4: Annotated Bibliography of Jazz Fiction
Part 16 Title Index
Part 17 About the Author
This is the most comprehensive bibliography available on the subject and a valuable work...
— American Reference Books Annual, March 2008
Rife probably knows his subject better than anyone around....Rife's introductory essays on the history of jazz fiction are essential for understanding the various subgenres such as young adult jazz fiction....Recommended.
— .; Choice Reviews, May 2008
...an intelligent and thoroughly reliable companion to scholarly endeavors in this growing field of study.
— Booklist, March 2008
Details about jazz fiction provided in this reference book successfully fill a void in the current literature.... English and music majors will find the historical background an important building block to their understanding of jazz fiction.
— American Music, Spring 2010