The muse is music
Subtitle: jazz poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to spoken word
By: Meta DuEwa Jones
Series: The new Black studies series; New Black studies
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780252036217
Subjects: African Americans in literature; History and criticism; Rhythm; Music and literature; Jazz musicians in literature; Intellectual life; Jazz in literature; English language; American poetry; African American authors; African American musicians in literature; African Americans; History
Description: "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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: Riff, remembrance, and revision; title: Listening to what the ear demands : Langston Hughes on the (jazz) record; title: Jazz prosody : the gendered contours of the post-soul Coltrane poem; title: New traditions, new translations; title: Opening the canary's cage : sex, gender, and the jazz body; title: A cave canem continuum or a dark room renaissance : from jazz improvisation to hip-hop stylization; title: Epilogue; title: When the muse is music: scripting collaboration and improvisation.