Muse Is Music - Jazz Poetry From the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word

Informationen zum Autor Meta DuEwa Jones is an assistant professor of English and a faculty affiliate in the Center for Women's and Gender Studies and the Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Klappentext An elaborate articulation of the connections between jazz! poetry and gender Zusammenfassung An elaborate articulation of the connections between jazz! poetry and gender Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 R iff! Remembrance! and Revision 1. Listening to What the Ear Demands: Langston Hughes on the (Jazz) Record 33 2. Jazz Prosody: The Gendered Contours of the Post-Soul Coltrane Poem 85 New Traditions! New Translations 3. Opening the Canary's Cage: Sex! Gender! and the Jazz Body 129 4. A Cave Canem Continuum or a Dark Room Renaissance? From Jazz Improvisation to Hip-Hop Stylization in Contemporary Black Poetry 167 Epilogue. "When the Muse Is Music": Collaboration and Improvisation in Jazz Poetics 209 Notes 231 Works Cited 249 Index 273

Product details

• Authors: Meta Duewa Jones, JONES META DUEWA
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780252036217
• ISBN: 978-0-252-03621-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: New Black Studies Series; New Black Studies; New Black Studies Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies