Blue Notes
Autor Sam V H Reeseen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2019
Thisilluminatingcriticalstudycontemplatestherelationshipbetweenjazzandliteraturefromaperspectivethatmusiciansthemselvesregularlycallupontocharacterizetheirperformances:thatoftheconversation.Reesetracesthetraditionofliteraryappropriationsofjazz,bothassubjectmatterandasaestheticstructure,inordertoshowhowwritersturntothisgenreofmusicasanavenueforexploringaspectsofhumanloneliness.Inturn,jazzmusicianshaveoftenlookedtoliterature?sometimesobliquely,sometimescentrally?forinspiration.Reesedevotesparticularattentiontohowseveralrevolutionaryjazzartistsusedthewrittenwordasawaytoexpress,inconcreteterms,somethingtheirmusiccouldonlyalludetooraffectivelyevoke.Byanalyzingtheseexchangesbetweenmusicandliterature,BlueNotesrefinesandexpandstheculturalmeaningofbeingalone,stressinghowlonelinesscancreatebeauty,empathy,andunderstanding.
ReeseanalyzesabodyofprosewritingsthatincludesRalphEllison'sInvisibleManandmidcenturyshortfictionbyJamesBaldwin,JulioCort?zar,LangstonHughes,andEudoraWelty.Alongsidethisvibranttraditionofjazzliterature,ReeseconsiderstheautobiographiesofDukeEllingtonandCharlesMingus,aswellasworksbyarangeofcontemporarywritersincludingGeoffDyer,ToniMorrison,HarukiMurakami,andZadieSmith.Throughout,BlueNotesoffersoriginalperspectivesonthedisparatewaysinwhichwritersacknowledgetheexpansivesideofloneliness,reimaginingsolitudethroughnarrativesofconnectedisolation.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780807172247
ISBN-10: 0807172243
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Louisiana State University Press
ISBN-10: 0807172243
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Louisiana State University Press
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"Reese has made an essential contribution to the scholarship on jazz writing. After thoroughly interrogating what it means to be lonely, he then shows how literature about jazz--canonical as well as obscure, autobiography as well as fiction--yields its secrets when read alongside concepts of loneliness."--Krin Gabbard, author of Better Git It in Your Soul.n Your Soul.
"Reese has made an essential contribution to the scholarship on jazz writing. After thoroughly interrogating what it means to be lonely, he then shows how literature about jazz--canonical as well as obscure, autobiography as well as fiction--yields its secrets when read alongside concepts of loneliness."--Krin Gabbard, author of Better Git It in Your Soul.n Your Soul.
Notă biografică
Sam V. H. Reese is a lecturer in English and creative writing at the University of Northampton and the author of The Short Story in Midcentury America: Countercultural Form in the Work of Bowles, McCarthy, Welty, and Williams, winner of the 2018 Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize.