Muyumba, Walton M.
The shadow and the act black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism / [electronic resource] : Walton M. Muyumba. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009. - xi, 216 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: vamping til ready -- Movement I: Three ways of looking at a yardbird: Charlie Parker and the theorization of jazz improvisation in the work of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Le Roi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Movement II: Black is, black ain't: violence, black masculinity, and the novel as democratic symbol -- Movement III: Cutting session: Baldwin as intellectual prizefighter, Baldwin as improvising intellectual -- Movement IV: Improvising over the changes: improvisation as intellectual and aesthetic practice in the transitional poems of Le Roi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Coda.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Ellison, Ralph--Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 --Criticism and interpretation.
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934- --Criticism and interpretation.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Jazz in literature.
Jazz--History and criticism.
Improvisation (Music)
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / M89 2009eb
810.9/3578
The shadow and the act black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism / [electronic resource] : Walton M. Muyumba. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009. - xi, 216 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: vamping til ready -- Movement I: Three ways of looking at a yardbird: Charlie Parker and the theorization of jazz improvisation in the work of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Le Roi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Movement II: Black is, black ain't: violence, black masculinity, and the novel as democratic symbol -- Movement III: Cutting session: Baldwin as intellectual prizefighter, Baldwin as improvising intellectual -- Movement IV: Improvising over the changes: improvisation as intellectual and aesthetic practice in the transitional poems of Le Roi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Coda.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Ellison, Ralph--Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 --Criticism and interpretation.
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934- --Criticism and interpretation.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Jazz in literature.
Jazz--History and criticism.
Improvisation (Music)
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / M89 2009eb
810.9/3578