Blue Notes : Jazz, Literature, and Loneliness /

Jazz can be uplifting, stimulating, sensual, and spiritual. Yet when writers turn to this form of music, they almost always imagine it in terms of loneliness. In Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature, and Loneliness, Sam V.H. Reese investigates literary representations of jazz and the cultural narratives oft...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Reese, Sam V. H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Musical fiction.
Loneliness in literature.
Jazz in literature.
Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Musical fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Feeling blue
  • In a minor key : the solo, improvisation, and the jazz short story
  • Lonely women : jazz, gender, and isolation
  • Out there : jazz and the out-narrative
  • The real story : jazz autobiographies, authority, and agency
  • Epilogue. So what?

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