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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... songs. If we had anticipated every song you were going to call out, that . . . would have been a long rehearsal.” There will be readers of this book who will wonder why certain authors are not discussed at length here. This study is ...
... Songs for a Colored Singer,” and William Melvin Kelley's A Drop of Patience, in which the music is never described, but the metaphor of the struggling performer is depicted with harrowing immediacy. These out- takes deserve to be ...
... songs , and bop lines are usually crafted in collaboration . The lit- erary exchanges between blacks and Jews often reinforced their differences : Irving Howe versus Ralph Ellison , Norman Mailer versus James Baldwin , Amiri Baraka ...
... song provided a haven for two margin- alized ethnic groups before integration became the law of the land. By the time Jewish immigrants first arrived in the United States around the turn of the century, African Americans, though a ...
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