Epistrophies - Jazz and the Literary Imagination

Hearing across media is the source of innovation in a uniquely African American sphere of art-making and performance, Brent Hayes Edwards writes. He explores this fertile interface through case studies in jazz literature¿both writings informed by music and the surprisingly large body of writing by jazz musicians themselves.

About the author

Brent Hayes Edwards is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Summary

Hearing across media is the source of innovation in a uniquely African American sphere of art-making and performance, Brent Hayes Edwards writes. He explores this fertile interface through case studies in jazz literature—both writings informed by music and the surprisingly large body of writing by jazz musicians themselves.

Product details

• Authors: Brent Hayes Edwards, Edwards Brent Hayes
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780674055438
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05543-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary theory