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Swinging the Vernacular - Michael Borshuk

Swinging the Vernacular

Jazz and African American Modernist Literature

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Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2005
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-97447-9 (ISBN)
CHF 235,65 inkl. MwSt
This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to the social and aesthetic significance of stylistic changes in the music.

Michael Borshuk is Assistant Professor of African American literature in the department of English at Texas Tech University. He has published book chapters and critical articles on Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, William Carlos Williams and Mina Loy. He also writes on jazz regularly for Coda Magazine.

Introduction: The Language of Jazz as American Culture Becomes Modern 1. Langston Hughes and the First Book of Jazz 2. Thriving on a Riff: Bebop and Langston Hughes's Montage of a Dream Deferred 3. Riffing on the Lower Frequencies: Dialogism, Intertextuality, and Bebop in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man 4. "Here Where Coltrane Is": Jazz, Cultural Memory, and Political Aesthetics in the Poetry of Michael S. Harper 5. Albert Murray Brings It On Home: Revisioning Black Modernism in Train Whistle Guitar. Coda.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.10.2005
Reihe/Serie Studies in African American History and Culture
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 650 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-415-97447-X / 041597447X
ISBN-13 978-0-415-97447-9 / 9780415974479
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