The shadow and the act [electronic resource] : black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism / Walton M. Muyumba.
By: Muyumba, Walton M.
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BookPublisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009Description: xi, 216 p. ; 22 cm.Subject(s): 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)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/3578 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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