| Description |
1 online resource (x, 233 pages) |
| Contents |
The sound of grammar : blues and jazz as meta-languages of storytelling in Langston Hughes's Ask your mama -- Move on up : free jazz and rhythm and blues -- Performativities as creative acts of cultural -- Re-inscription in David Henderson's De mayor of Harlem -- Sister in the struggle : jazz linguistics and the feminized -- Quest for a communicative 'sound' in Sonia Sanchez's -- Home coming and we a baddDDD people -- Birth of a free jazz nation : Amiri Baraka's jazz : historiography from black magic to Wise, why's, y's |
| Summary |
To the endless questions, theoretical statements, and hypotheses about <span style=""font-style:italic;"">how Black poets transcribe jazz into the poetic format, this book, while providing a different approach to reading jazz poetry, attempts to answer the question, <span style=""font-style:italic;"">why do Black poets revert to jazz for poetic material. This book's answer is because jazz is Black History ritualized and performed, and jazz performance is storytelling. <br /> |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-216) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism
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Jazz in literature.
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Griots.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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English language -- Rhythm.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life
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American poetry -- African American authors
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English language -- Rhythm
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Griots
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Jazz in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021675660 |
| ISBN |
9780739166741 |
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0739166743 |
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1306538769 |
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9781306538763 |
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