The drum is a wild woman : jazz and gender in African diaspora literature /

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"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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Lespinasse, Patricia G. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
Sujets:
Jazz in literature.
Jazz > History and criticism.
Women in music.
African American women authors.
Music and literature.
Wild women in literature.
Jazz dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la musique.
Écrivaines noires américaines.
Musique et littérature.
Femmes sauvages dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz.
African American women authors
Jazz
Jazz in literature
Music and literature
Wild women in literature
Women in music
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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