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The Drum Is a Wild Woman : Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora Literature /
"In 1957, Duke Ellington released the influential album A Drum Is a Woman. This musical allegory revealed the implicit truth about the role of women in jazz discourse-jilted by the musician and replaced by the drum. Further, the album's cover displays an image of a woman sitting atop a dru...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2022.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. A new beat, generations later : modern jazz and African diaspora womens' writing
- Reunited : (Re)Claming gender in jazz narratives from Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" to Angelou's "Reunion"
- Musical signifyin(g) : a theory of cry and response in Gayl Jones's Corregidora
- This jazz moment : (Re)Envisioning Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
- Wild women don't have the blues : improvising women in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Ann Petry's The Street
- Jazz and the Caribbean : The feminist jazz lens in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory
- The Fisher King and the women of jazz
- Conclusion. Toward a womanist jazz lens : gender and jazz in poetry and dance.