| Edition |
Expanded ed. |
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1 online resource (xiii, 223 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
This collection of essays and poems about the influence of jazz on writing and culture in this country, an expanded edition of the 1986 publication, is a rewarding volume for all those entranced by jazz. Carruth brings his considerable poetic and literary sensibilities to bear on a topic very near to his heart: "Those who are devoted primarily to jazz, to poetry, to all the arts, are also those who contribute more intelligently than others to our practical and moral, political and social, advancement." |
| Contents |
The Guy Downstairs -- A Chaconnade for Everyone Named Rebecca -- Freedom and Discipline -- Academicism -- Who Cares, Long as It's B-Flat -- Influences: The Formal Idea of Jazz -- Joe Turner -- Song about Earl Hines -- With Respect to the Infuriating Pervasiveness of Optimism -- A Possibly Momentary Declaration In Favor of William Butler Yeats and Charles Ellsworth Russell -- Paragraph -- Got Those Forever Inadequate Blues -- The Intentional Alligator -- Personality of Genius -- Tom McGrath Is Harvesting the Snow -- Authenticity in the Age of Massive, Multiplying Error -- Michigan Water: A Few Riffs before Dawn -- Three Paragraphs -- The Defeated Generation -- The Cowshed Blues -- The Main Thing about Improvisation -- The Blues Scale -- Ben Webster -- The Time of Falling Apart -- The Blues as Poetry -- In That Session -- James Wright's Collected Prose -- Mystery and Expressiveness. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Music. |
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Jazz -- History and criticism.
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Jazz. |
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Blues (Music) -- History and criticism.
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Blues (Music) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008. Sitting in. Expanded ed. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, ©1993 087745423X (DLC) 93001813 (OCoLC)28111069 |
| ISBN |
1587290316 (electronic book) |
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9781587290312 (electronic book) |
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087745423X (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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9780877454236 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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