Epistrophies : jazz and the literary imagination /

From its inception, African American literature has taken shape in relation to music. Black writing is informed by the conviction that music is the privileged archival medium of black communal experience--that music provides a "tone parallel" (in Duke Ellington's phrase) to African Am...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edwards, Brent Hayes (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Music and literature > United States > History.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Jazz in literature.
Jazz > History and criticism.
African American aesthetics.
Musique et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire.
Jazz dans la littérature.
Esthétique noire américaine.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
African American aesthetics
American literature > African American authors
Jazz
Jazz in literature
Music and literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "I thought I heard" : the origins of jazz and the ends of jazz writing
  • Louis Armstrong and the syntax of scat
  • Towards a poetics of transcription: James Weldon Johnson's prefaces
  • The literary Ellington
  • The race for space: Sun Ra's poetry
  • Zoning Mary Lou Williams zoning
  • Let's call this: Henry Threadgill and the micropoetics of the song title
  • Notes on poetics regarding Mackey's song
  • Come out
  • Afterword: Hearing across media.

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