But Morrison's approach to what the blues and jazz mean in the larger cultural context of early twentieth-century African American urban culture is a complex interweaving of tropes of the blues, jazz, and Harlem itself that deserves a more thorough exploration, one that takes into account how Morrison's innovative narrative strategies "make articulate a heretofore repressed and silenced black female's story and voice." 1 In the case of Jazz, I see "voice" as referring to the cultural artifact by which black women's narratives have been and are still commonly "heard" the novel both cites what Houston Baker, Jr.
Most critical treatments of Jazz take some account of jazz's role in the novel, yet pay only marginal attention to its running commentary on the blues.
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