The muse is music : jazz poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to spoken word / Meta DuEwa Jones.

Author
Jones, Meta DuEwa [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
Description
xiv, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Series
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references 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.
ISBN
  • 0252036212 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780252036217 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010046897
OCLC
682145442
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