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Title The jazz fiction anthology / edited by Sascha Feinstein & David Rife.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2009]
©2009

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 Moore Stacks  PN6120.2 .J37 2009    Available  ---
Description xvi, 506 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Barrier / Don Asher -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Medley / Toni Cade Bambara -- Norman's date / Amiri Baraka -- Screamers / Amiri Baraka -- Singing Dinah's song / Frank London Brown -- A woman who plays trumpet is deported / Michelle Cliff -- Jazz at twelve / Wanda Coleman -- Bix Beiderbecke / Julio Cortázar -- Pursuer / Julio Cortázar -- Swingtime / Kiki DeLancey -- A coupla scalped Indians / Ralph Ellison -- Common meter / Rudolph Fisher -- Blues for Little Prez / Sam Greenlee -- Tenorman: a novella / David Huddle -- Blues I'm playing / Langston Hughes -- Old ghost revives atavistic memories in a lady of the DAR / Langston Hughes -- Dead jazz guys / Phil Kawana -- Buddy's monologue / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Miss Brown to you / Ellen Jordis Lewis -- Rossonian days / William Henry Lewis --Lush life / John McCluskey, Jr. -- Child's play / Bill Moody -- Shrimp peel gig / James Reed -- End of Bull Mácha / Josef Škvorecký -- You're too hip, baby / Terry Southern -- Jazz baby / Julian Street -- Round about close to midnight / Boris Vian -- Powerhouse / Eudora Welty -- Silence of Thelonious Monk / John Edgar Wideman -- Jazz wife / Xu Xi -- A really good jazz piano / Richard Yates.
Summary A gathering of the best jazz fiction from the 1920s to the present, this anthology includes 20th-century fiction by Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Richard Yates, and others, plus important recent work from writers such as Yusef Komunyakaa, Xu Xi, and Amiri Baraka. Together these artists demonstrate the strong influence of jazz on fiction. That influence can be felt in prose styles shaped by jazz -- freewheeling, dramatic, conversational, improvisatory; in stories of players and listeners searching for what lies beyond the music's aesthetic power; and in the ambience of the jazz performance as captured by the written word. What sounds throughout these stories is the universal voice of humanity that is the essence of the music.
Genre/Form Short stories.
Short stories.
Subject Jazz in literature.
Jazz in literature.
Added Author Feinstein, Sascha, 1963- editor.
Rife, David, 1937- editor.
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