| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One African American Music and Morrison’s Writing | 第10-15页 |
| ·Characteristics of African American Music | 第10-12页 |
| ·The Musicology Approach to Morrison’s Works | 第12-15页 |
| ·The Relationship between Black Music and Writings | 第12-13页 |
| ·Music and Morrison’s Works | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Blues Themes of Morrison’s Works | 第15-34页 |
| ·Lamenting the Absence of Love | 第15-25页 |
| ·The Absence of Spousal Love | 第15-17页 |
| ·The Absence of Familial Love | 第17-20页 |
| ·Loss of Communal Love | 第20-25页 |
| ·Mourning the Cultural Loss | 第25-29页 |
| ·The Possibility of Recovery | 第29-34页 |
| Chapter Three Jazzthetic Narrative in Morrison’s Works | 第34-50页 |
| ·Call and Response in Morrison’s Works | 第34-39页 |
| ·Call and Response between Characters | 第35-38页 |
| ·Call and Response between Chapters and Paragraphs | 第38-39页 |
| ·Improvisation in Morrison’s Works | 第39-43页 |
| ·The characteristics of Improvisation | 第39-40页 |
| ·Improvisation in Morrison’s Works | 第40-43页 |
| ·Repetition and Variation in Morrison’s Works | 第43-46页 |
| ·Repetition of Motifs | 第43-44页 |
| ·Varying Repetition of Lines and Scenes | 第44-46页 |
| ·Open-ended Narratives | 第46-50页 |
| Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-54页 |
