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The muse is music : jazz poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to spoken word
- Title
- The muse is music : jazz poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to spoken word / Meta DuEwa Jones.
- Author
- Jones, Meta DuEwa.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
- ©2011.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 285 page : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoke word poetry."--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- The new Black studies series
- Uniform Title
- New Black studies series.
- Subjects
- Music and literature
- American poetry > African American authors
- English language > Rhythm
- African American musicians in literature
- Jazz in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Jazz musicians in literature
- American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism
- History
- African American poets > Influence > History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
- American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- 1900-1999
- Black author
- Music and literature > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-272) and index.
- Contents
- Riff, remembrance, and revision. Listening to what the ear demands : Langston Hughes on the (jazz) record ; Jazz prosody : the gendered contours of the post-soul Coltrane poem -- New traditions, new translations. Opening the canary's cage : sex, gender, and the jazz body ; A cave canem continuum or a dark room renaissance : from jazz improvisation to hip-hop stylization -- Epilogue: When the muse is music: scripting collaboration and improvisation.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-1391
- ISBN
- 0252036212
- 9780252036217
- 9780252079269
- 0252079264
- LCCN
- 2010046897
- OCLC
- 682145442
- Author
- Jones, Meta DuEwa.
- Title
- The muse is music : jazz poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to spoken word / Meta DuEwa Jones.
- Publisher
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
- Copyright Date
- ©2011.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The new Black studies seriesNew Black studies series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-272) and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-1391