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The muse is music: jazz poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to spoken word

2011; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 49; Issue: 04 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.49-1920

1943-5975

Meta DuEwa Jones,

Race, History, and American Society

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 R iff, Remembrance, and Revision 1. Listening to What the Ear Demands: Langston Hughes on the (Jazz) Record 33 2. Jazz Prosody: The Gendered Contours of the Post-Soul Coltrane Poem 85 New Traditions, New Translations 3. Opening the Canary's Cage: Sex, Gender, and the Jazz Body 129 4. A Cave Canem Continuum or a Dark Room Renaissance? From Jazz Improvisation to Hip-Hop Stylization in Contemporary Black Poetry 167 Epilogue. When the Muse Is Music: Collaboration and Improvisation in Jazz Poetics 209 Notes 231 Works Cited 249 Index 273