Thriving on a Riff

Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Literature and Film

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-533709-9 (ISBN)

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Thriving on a Riff builds on the growing interest in jazz and blues as cross-cultural influences. Focusing here on literature and film, the book's expert contributors trace the music's changing roles in a range of key contexts, from the Harlem Renaissance to Hollywood, bebop fiction to blues poetics.

From the Harlem Renaissance to the present, African American writers have drawn on the rich heritage of jazz and blues, transforming musical forms into the written word. In this companion volume to The Hearing Eye, distinguished contributors ranging from Bertram Ashe to Steven C. Tracy explore the musical influence on such writers as Sterling Brown, J.J. Phillips, Paul Beatty, and Nathaniel Mackey. Here, too, are Graham Lock's engaging interviews with contemporary poets Michael S. Harper and Jayne Cortez, along with studies of the performing self, in Krin Gabbard's account of Miles Davis and John Gennari's investigation of fictional and factual versions of Charlie Parker. The book also looks at African Americans in and on film, from blackface minstrelsy to the efforts of Duke Ellington and John Lewis to rescue jazz from its stereotyping in Hollywood film scores as a signal for sleaze and criminality. Concluding with a proposal by Michael Jarrett for a new model of artistic influence, Thriving on a Riff makes the case for the seminal cross-cultural role of jazz and blues.

Graham Lock is a freelance writer, Special Lecturer in American Music, University of Nottingham, and author, Forces in Motion: Anthony Braxton and the Meta-reality of Creative Music (Quartet, 1988), Chasing the Vibration: Meetings with Creative Musicians (Stride, 1994), and Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington and Anthony Braxton (Duke, 1999), and editor, Mixtery: A Festschrift for Anthony Braxton (Stride, 1995). David Murray is Professor of American Studies, University of Nottingham, and author, Indian Giving: Economies of Power in Early Indian-White Exchanges (Massachusetts UP, 2000), Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing and Representation in North American Indian Texts (Indiana UP, 1992), and Matter, Magic and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief (Pennsylvania UP, 2007).

I. MUSIC, IMAGE, AND IDENTITY; II. JAZZ, BLUES, AND LITERATURE; III. MUSIC, IMAGE, AND IDENTITY - II; IV. JAZZ, BLUES, AND FILM; V. EPISTROPHY

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.1.2009
Zusatzinfo	9 halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	251 x 203 mm
Gewicht	1151 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-533709-3 / 0195337093
ISBN-13	978-0-19-533709-9 / 9780195337099
Zustand	Neuware