Screen LibraryJazz and American culture /
"Almost immediately after jazz became popular nationally in the United States in the early 20th century, American writers responded to what this exciting art form signified for listeners. This book takes an expansive view of the relationship between this uniquely American music and other aspect...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2024. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge themes in American literature and culture. |
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"Almost immediately after jazz became popular nationally in the United States in the early 20th century, American writers responded to what this exciting art form signified for listeners. This book takes an expansive view of the relationship between this uniquely American music and other aspects of American life, including books, films, language, and politics. Observing how jazz has become a cultural institution, widely celebrated as 'America's classical music,' the book also never loses sight of its beginnings in Black expressive culture and its enduring ability to critique problems of democracy or speak back to violence and inequality, from Jim Crow to George Floyd. Taking the reader through time and across expressive forms, this volume traces jazz as an aesthetic influence, a political force, and a representational focus in American literature and culture. It shows how Jazz has long been a rich source of aesthetic stimulation, influencing writers as stylistically wide-ranging as Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, and James Baldwin, or artists as diverse as Aaron Douglas, Jackson Pollock, and Gordon Parks."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 415 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-392) and index. |
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9781009420198 1009420194 |
| Index Number: | ML3508 |
| CLC: | J657.695 |
| Call Number: | J657.695/J429-3 |
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A brief history of jazz in American culture -- Elements of sound and style. Improvisation / Scat and vocalese / Jazz as intertextual expression / How to watch jazz : the importance of performance / Aesthetic movements. Jazz age Harlem / "Hard times don't worry me" : the blues in Black music and literature in the 1930s / A fool for beauty : modernism and the racial semiotics of crooning / Free jazz, critical performativity, and 1968 / Cultural contexts. Jazz slang, jazz speak / Jazz cool / The institutionalization of jazz / Jazz abroad / Literary genres. Orchestrating chaos : othering and the politics of contingency in jazz fiction / "Wail, wop" : jazz poetry on the page and in performance / Jazz criticism and liner notes / Jazz autobiography / Jazz and the American songbook / Images and screens. "The sound I saw" : jazz and visual culture / Love, theft, and transcendence : jazz and narrative cinema / Reinstating televisual histories of jazz / Documentary jazz/Jazz documentary / Two dark rooms : Jazz and Photography / |