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Product Description This work uses close analysis of key African-American literary texts to investigate the links between the development of blues and jazz and the development of modern African-American literature."Cross-Rhythms" investigates the literary uses and effects of blues and jazz in African-American literature of the twentieth century. Texts by James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison and Ishmael Reed variously adopt or are consciously informed by a jazz aesthetic; this aesthetic becomes part of a strategy of ethnic identification and provides a medium with which to consider the legacy of trauma in African-American history. These diverse writers are all thoroughly immersed in a socio-cultural context and a literary aesthetic that embodies shifting conceptions of ethnic identity across the twentieth century. The emergence of blues and jazz is, likewise, a crucial product of, as well as catalyst for, this context, and in their own aesthetic explorations of notions of ethnicity these writers consciously engage with this musical milieu.By examining the highly varied manifestations of a jazz aesthetic as possibly the fundamental common demoninator which links these writers, this study attempts to identify an underlying unifying principle. As the different writers write against essentializing or organic categories of race, the very fact of a shared engagement with jazz sensibilities in their work redefines the basis of African-American communal identity. Review Mention Chronicle of Higher Education, March 13, 2009"What a delight to watch Keren Omry turn Theodor Adorno on his head! Adorno hated jazz, but Omry has scrupulously transformed his writings into a valuable resource for theorizing the role of jazz in fiction and poetry. She has also brought her astute sensibility to the theories of Houston Baker, Henry Louis Gates, and Angela Davis as she assesses the appropriation of jazz by - among many others - Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison. Omry has made a valuable contribution to both literary and jazz studies." - Professor Krin Gabbard, Department Comparative Literature and English, State University of New York, USAMention --Chronicle of Higher Education, March 13, 2009Mention -Chronicle of Higher Education, March 13, 2009 About the Author Keren Omry teaches Jazz and American Literature at Tel Aviv University and at University of Haifa, Israel.

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Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0826497438
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Jazz
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 23 December 2008
Listed Since: 13 June 2008

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