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Sitting in : selected writings on jazz, blues, and related topics /
This collection of essays and poems about the influence of jazz on writing and culture in this country, an expanded edition of the 1986 publication, is a rewarding volume for all those entranced by jazz. Carruth brings his considerable poetic and literary sensibilities to bear on a topic very near t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City, Iowa :
University of Iowa Press,
©1993.
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| Edición: | Expanded ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Guy Downstairs
- A Chaconnade for Everyone Named Rebecca
- Freedom and Discipline
- Academicism
- Who Cares, Long as It's B-Flat
- Influences: The Formal Idea of Jazz
- Joe Turner
- Song about Earl Hines
- With Respect to the Infuriating Pervasiveness of Optimism
- A Possibly Momentary Declaration In Favor of William Butler Yeats and Charles Ellsworth Russell
- Paragraph
- Got Those Forever Inadequate Blues
- The Intentional Alligator
- Personality of Genius
- Tom McGrath Is Harvesting the Snow
- Authenticity in the Age of Massive, Multiplying Error
- Michigan Water: A Few Riffs before Dawn
- Three Paragraphs
- The Defeated Generation
- The Cowshed Blues
- The Main Thing about Improvisation
- The Blues Scale
- Ben Webster
- The Time of Falling Apart
- The Blues as Poetry
- In That Session
- James Wright's Collected Prose
- Mystery and Expressiveness.