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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... wrote , imitation is suicide . I discovered scholarly possibilities for my jazz scavenging when I had the good fortune to meet Krin Gabbard , who read every chapter of this book and has been a loyal confidant , men- tor , and mensch ...
... wrote this, Coltrane was famous for practicing so extensively that he could spend an entire day on the same scale. His regimen was so demanding, he would even practice using harp and violin books, too, insatiably reaching be- yond what ...
... wrote about the music , he took all of these factors into account . In the prologue to In- visible Man , Ellison balanced literary devices , harmonic insight , and history when he used a metaphor to describe how Louis Armstrong " bent ...
... wrote the blues . Manifesting the music itself , Hughes avoided the high - low problem posed by other poets by acting as a participant rather than an observer , but when he teamed up with Charles Mingus in 1957 , their con- trasting ...
... wrote, “has meant first sex, then dancing, then music.” Add “drinking” to the list, and Fitzgerald would have been concerned with music the very least.8 By 1992, Toni Morri- son had titled a novel Jazz without directly writing about the ...
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