Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American WritingPrinceton University Press, 2009年2月9日 - 232 頁 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. |
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... TRADITION IN ELLISON'S JAZZ WRITINGS 61 3. STOMPING THE MUSE 99 FOR AMY “ Boy , am I riffin ' this. JAZZ , POETRY , AND THE PROBLEMATIC MUSE 4. LOVE FOR SALE HUSTLING THE JAZZ MEMOIR 150 Notes 199 Bibliography 215 Index 225.
... poets , but to see if literary writing about jazz can hold up to a serious historical , aesthetic , and biographical investigation of the music and the artists who made it . The jazz fan is such a marginal cultural figure that he — and ...
... poets, and playwrights, and how, in turn, the musicians chose to represent themselves in autobiographies. The movement of this book is more thematic than it is historical or syllogistic. Jazz his- tory is an unstable mass of recordings ...
... poetry , and the rev- elations and mystifications surfacing in jazz autobiography— all of these subjects will be given close attention in this study . In attempting to describe jazz , writers have used the technical language of ...
... poem “ For the Mar- riage of Faustus and Helen " to Richard Powers's 2003 novel The Time of Our Singing , in which the biracial Strom brothers dis- cover jazz with the discipline of prodigies . It has been difficult for writers to ...
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