- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood Press (30 Mar 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0275959155
- ISBN-13: 978-0275959159
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.6 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,830,807 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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?This scholarly work combines interesting historical and biographical information about some of the world's greatest jazz musicians with insightful interpretations of works by an equally impressive group of poets, some of whom are not generally associated with jazz.... Students of the Harlem Renaissance will be particularly interested in the account of Vachel Lindsay's 'discovery' of Langston Hughes.... Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty.?-Choice
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Embracing the entire history of jazz poetry, this work defines this inspired literary genre as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music. It discusses the major figures and various movements from the racist poems of the 1920s to contemporary times when the tone of jazz poetry experienced a dramatic change from elegy to celebration. The jazz music of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane transliterated into poetry by the likes of Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown is but part of this work. This volume should be of interest to scholars and students of literature, music, American and African studies and popular culture, as well as anyone who enjoys jazz and poetry. Emphasis is given to a call and response between white and African American writers. The earliest jazz poems by white writers from the 1920s, for example, reflected the general anxieties evoked by jazz, particulary regarding race and sexuality, and jazz did not fully become embraced in American verse until Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown published their first books in 1926 and 1932, respectively. By the 1950s, jazz poetry had become a fad, featuring jazz-and-poetry in peformance, and this text spends considerable time addressing the energetic but often widely unsuccessful work by dominantly white, West coast writers who turned to Charlie Parker as their hero. African American poets from the 1960s, however, focused more on John Coltrane and interpreted his music as a musical representation of the Black Civil Rights movement. Jazz poetry from the 1970s to the present has had less to do with this call and reponse between races, and the final two chapters discuss contemporary jazz poetry in terms of its dramatic change in tone from elegy to joy.
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When I think about the poet Etheridge Knight, I often reflect on the times I heard him read his work, or evenings when we listened to jazz at various clubs in downtown Indianapolis. Read the first page
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