Epistrophies : : Jazz and the Literary Imagination / / 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 j...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 22 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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