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Thriving on a riff : jazz and blues influences in African American literature and film
- Title
- Thriving on a riff : jazz and blues influences in African American literature and film / edited by Graham Lock and David Murray.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiii, 296 p.; 26 cm.
- Subjects
- Music and literature
- Blues (Music) in motion pictures
- Blues (Music) in literature
- Motion pictures and music > United States
- African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Jazz in motion pictures
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Music and literature > History > 20th century
- Jazz in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- You ain't got to be black to be black": music, race, consciousness, and identity in The autobiography of an ex-colored man and Mojo hand / Nick Heffernan -- Blackface minstrelsy and jazz signification in Hollywood's early sound era / Corin Willis -- "Thanks, Jack, for that": the strange legacies of Sterling A. Brown / Steven C. Tracy -- Phraseology: an interview with Michael S. Harper -- Paul Beatty's White boy shuffle blues: jazz poetry, John Coltrane, and the post-soul aesthetic / Bertram D. Ashe -- Giving voice: an interview with Jayne Cortez -- "Out of this world": music and spirit in the writings of Nathaniel Mackey and Amiri Baraka / David Murray -- Blaxploitation Bird: Ross Russell's pulp addiction / John Gennari -- How many miles? Alternate takes on the jazz life / Krin Gabbard -- "A rebus of democratic slants and angles": to have and have not, racial representation and musical performance in a democracy at war / Ian Brookes -- "No brotherly love": Hollywood jazz, racial prejudice and John Lewis's score for Odds against tomorrow / David Butler -- Anatomy of a movie: Duke Ellington and 1950s film scoring / Mervyn Cooke -- Jumping tracks: the path of conduction / Michael Jarrett.
- Call Number
- Sc F 09-204
- ISBN
- 9780195337020 (alk. paper)
- 0195337026 (alk. paper)
- 9780195337099 (alk. paper)
- 0195337093 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007049329
- OCLC
- 182857106
- Title
- Thriving on a riff : jazz and blues influences in African American literature and film / edited by Graham Lock and David Murray.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Lock, Graham, 1948-Murray, David.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 09-204JMF 23-81