Jazz and the novel in the cultural and imaginative landscape -- Music, race, and sublimation: ragtime and symphonic time in the autobiography of an ex-colored man -- "Carolina shout" and the rhythms of rent-party performance -- Forms of repetition and jazz sociality in The Great Gatsby -- Vibratory time in Smith and Armstrong’s "St. Louis Blues" -- Rhythmicizing the novel: temporal taxonomies from Larsen to Hemingway, Stein to Hughe.