Research Catalog

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, c2011.

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Details

Description

xiv, 285 p. : ill.; 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

Subject

• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• Jazz in literature
• American poetry > History and criticism
• African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Music and literature > History > 20th century
• African American musicians in literature
• African Americans in literature
• Jazz musicians in literature
• English language > Rhythm

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0252036212 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780252036217 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010046897

OCLC

• 682145442
• SCSB-11967014

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library