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1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
White Negroes and native sons : Blacks and Jews in words and music -- Listening to Ellison : transgression and tradition in Ellison's jazz writings -- Stomping the muse : jazz, poetry, and the problematic muse -- Love for sale : hustling the jazz memoir. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-223) and index. |
| Summary |
How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into, and deeply affected, the development of twentieth-century American literature. Yaffe explores how Jewish novelists such as Norman Mailer, J.D. Salinger, and Philip Roth engaged issues of racial, ethnic, and American authenticity by way of jazz; how Ralph Ellison's descriptions of Louis Armstrong led to a "neoconservative" movement in contemporary jazz; how poets such as Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, and Frank O'Hara were variously inspired by the music; and how memoirs by Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis both reinforced and redeemed the red light origins of jazz. The book confronts the current jazz discourse and shows how poets and novelists can be placed in it--often with problematic results. --From publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ellison, Ralph -- Knowledge and learning -- Jazz.
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Ellison, Ralph. |
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Jazz. |
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Ellison, Ralph -- Et le jazz. |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Jazz in literature.
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Jazz in literature. |
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Jazz musicians -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Jazz musicians -- Biography. |
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Music and literature -- History -- 20th century.
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Music and literature. |
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History. |
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African American musicians in literature.
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African American musicians in literature. |
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Jazz musicians in literature.
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Jazz musicians in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Jazz.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yaffe, David, 1973- Fascinating rhythm. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006 0691123578 9780691123578 (DLC) 2005043242 (OCoLC)57675998 |
| ISBN |
9781400826803 (electronic book) |
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1400826802 (electronic book) |
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0691123578 (acid-free paper) |
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9780691123578 |
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