Jazz Griots - Music As History in the 1960s African American Poem

Informationen zum Autor Jean-Philippe Marcoux is a professor of American Literature at Université Laval in Quebec, Canada. He specializes in African American Literature, Postmodernist fiction and poetry, and in Jazz Studies. Klappentext To the endless questions, theoretical statements, and hypotheses about how Black poets transcribe jazz into the poetic format, this book, while providing a different approach to reading jazz poetry, attempts to answer the question, why do Black poets revert to jazz for poetic material. This book's answer is because jazz is Black History ritualized and performed, and jazz performance is storytelling. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Intravernacular Dialogues, Jazz Performativity, and the Griot's Meta-linguistic PraxesChapter 1: The Sound of Grammar: Blues and Jazz as Meta-languages of Storytelling in Langston Hughes's Ask Your MamaChapter 2: Move On Up: Free Jazz and Rhythm and Blues Performativities as Creative Acts of Cultural Re-inscription in David Henderson's De Mayor of HarlemChapter 3: Sister in the Struggle: Jazz Linguistics and the Feminized Quest for a Communicative 'Sound' in Sonia Sanchez's Home Coming and We A BaddDDD PeopleChapter 4: Birth of a Free Jazz Nation: Amiri Baraka's Jazz Historiography from Black Magic to Wise Why's Y'sCoda

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Philippe Marcoux
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2012
• EAN: 9780739166734
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-6673-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Ethnic Studies, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Black & Asian Studies, Literary studies: poetry and poets, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, American Literature;Literary Studies