Title The muse is music : jazz poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to spoken word / Meta DuEwa Jones.

Publication Info.	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
	©2011

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS310.J39 J66 2011	Available	---

Description	xiv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	The new Black studies series
	New Black studies series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Riff, remembrance, and revision -- Listening to what the ear demands : Langston Hughes on the (jazz) record -- Jazz prosody : the gendered contours of the post-soul Coltrane poem -- New traditions, new translations -- Opening the canary's cage : sex, gender, and the jazz body -- A cave canem continuum or a dark room renaissance : from jazz improvisation to hip-hop stylization -- Epilogue -- When the muse is music: scripting collaboration and improvisation.
Subject	American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American poetry.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Jazz in literature.
	Jazz in literature.
	American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American poetry -- African American authors.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	Music and literature -- History -- 20th century.
	Music and literature.
	History.
	African American musicians in literature.
	African American musicians in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Jazz musicians in literature.
	Jazz musicians in literature.
	English language -- Rhythm.
	English language -- Rhythm.
ISBN	0252036212 hardcover alkaline paper
	9780252036217 hardcover alkaline paper