Fascinating rhythm : reading jazz in American writing

Fascinating rhythm : reading jazz in American writing / David Yaffe.

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...

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Main Author: Yaffe, David, 1973-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Ellison, Ralph > Knowledge > Jazz.
Ellison, Ralph
1900 - 1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Jazz in literature.
Jazz musicians > Biography > History and criticism.
Music and literature > History > 20th century.
African American musicians in literature.
Jazz musicians in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African American musicians in literature
American literature
Jazz
Jazz in literature
Jazz musicians > Biography
Jazz musicians in literature
Music and literature
Jazz.
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • White Negroes and native sons : Blacks and Jews in words and music
  • Listening to Ellison : transgression and tradition in Ellison's jazz writings
  • Stomping the muse : jazz, poetry, and the problematic muse
  • Love for sale : hustling the jazz memoir.

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