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Jazz and Literature: An Introduction presents an original collection of essays from leading international scholars, examining an array of musical and literary interconnections.
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INTRODUCTION
Maria Antónia Lima and
Mia FunkPART I - JAZZ AND LITERATURE: ELECTIVE AFFINITIES
1 Jane Austen and John Coltrane
Allen Michie2 Does Early Jazz Express Freedom or Possibility?
Amedeo D'Adamo3 Modern Jazz Quintet: Hughes, Joans, Kaufman, Cortez, Komunyakaa
A. Robert Lee4 Race and Cut-Up Improvisational Aesthetics: William Burroughs and Jazz
Benjamin J. Heal5 Jazz and Futurism in Italy 1910-1935
Francesco Martinelli6 David Bowie's
Blackstar: Jazz, War, and Seventeenth-Century Literary Connections in "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore" and "Sue"
James Rovira7 Jazz as Modernity's Challenge in Interwar Spain
Juan Herrero-Senés8 Sounds in the Dark: Jazz in Noir Narratives
Maria Antónia Lima9 Jazz in Brazilian and Portuguese Poetry
Mário Avelar10
Truth Has to Be Given in Riddles: Literary Influences in the Portuguese Jazz Scene
Nuno Catarino11 Jazz, Body, and Soul: Yusef Lateef's Autophysiopsychic Practice
Sam Reese12 Varieties of Religious Experience through Jazz in Cortázar's "The Pursuer"
William LevinePART II - EXPERIENCES OF CREATIVE INTERFACES
13
Hvor En Var Baen: Places of Childhood
Haftor Medbøe14 Four Musicians and Six Characters: Narrative Categories in Contemporary Free Jazz
José Dias15 The Creative Process: Storytelling as an Improvisational Process
Mia Funk16 Morte d'Miles: Time with a Virtuoso
Peter Weller17 Inside the Mind and Heart of the Free Improviser - an Improvisation
Robert Dick18 Notes on Improvising While Composing: Dutch Writer J. Bernlef on Writing with Jazz
Scott RollinsPART III - THE CREATIVE PROCESS
19 INTERVIEWS
Music, Space, Sensation, and the Creative Process
Ada LimónJazz, Poetry, Improvisation, and the Art of Memory
Anthony JosephPortugal, Cultural Memory, and the Language of Jazz
Bernardo MoreiraJazz and the Time of the Novel
Bruce Evan BarnhartAn Improvised Life
Dickie LandryAfrican American Music and Storytelling: A Curator's Perspective
Dwandalyn R. ReeceImprovisation and Freedom, Passion and Purpose
Edmar CastañedaJazz, Film, Graphic Novels, and The Discovery of Sound
Filipe MeloWriting Between the Notes
Geoff DyerOn Music and the Intersection of Life and Craft
Jericho BrownA Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
Natalie HodgesA Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away
Paul HirschZen, Blues, Simplicity, and The Art of Songwriting
Rick CarnesSongwriting and Self-Exploration
Sharon Kovacs20 POEMS
For Ray
Ana CastilloThat Cat Named Bird
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko My Romance
Gerald FlemingRahsaan Roland Kirk at the Village Vanguard
Jeffrey GreeneChet Baker
J. BernlefForever Monkin' it
Malik Ameer CrumplerForward Avenue Blues (for Katherine Dunham)
Michael SimmsOther Leavings, Other Lives
Yvette Centeno21 ARTWORKS
About the author
Maria Antónia Lima is Associate Professor at the University of Évora, in Portugal, where she completed her PhD on the fiction of Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. She is a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) and teaches American Literature at the University of Évora. She was President of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) and a Board Member of the European Society for the Studies of English (ESSE). Her publications include international essays in specialized journals and critical volumes, as well as books on Gothic and the relationships between literature and the arts.
Mia Funk is an artist, podcast host, writer, and creative educator. Founder of
The Creative Process international educational initiative, podcast, and travelling exhibition, her varied work sees her leading workshops and mentoring students around creativity, critical thinking, environmental ethics, and humanities disciplines. Her work appears in public and private collections, including the U.S. Library of Congress, Office of Public Works, and Centre Culturel Irlandais de Paris. She's received the Prix de Peinture from the Salon d'Automne and exhibited in the Grand Palais. Funk served on the National Advisory Council of the American Writers Museum and serves on the advisory board of the European Conference for the Humanities.
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Jazz and Literature: An Introduction presents an original collection of essays from leading international scholars, examining an array of musical and literary interconnections.
