Epistrophies : : Jazz and the Literary Imagination / / Brent Hayes Edwards.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Edwards, Brent Hayes,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 22 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: "I Thought I Heard": The Origins of Jazz and the Ends of Jazz Writing --; 1. Louis Armstrong and the Syntax of Scat --; 2. Toward a Poetics of Transcription: James Weldon Johnson's Prefaces --; 3. The Literary Ellington --; 4. The Race for Space: Sun Ra's Poetry --; 5. Zoning Mary Lou Williams Zoning --; 6. Let's Call This: Henry Threadgill and the Micropoetics of the Song Title --; 7. Notes on Poetics Regarding Mackey's Song --; 8. Come Out --; Afterword: Hearing across Media --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674979048; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674979048?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Brent Hayes Edwards.

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.