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001 2008048657
003 DLC
005 20081112112058.0
008 081106s2009 ilu b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780226554235 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780226554242 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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040 $aICU/DLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS153.N5$bM89 2009
082 00 $a810.9/3578$222
100 1 $aMuyumba, Walton M.
245 14 $aThe shadow and the act :$bblack intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism /$cWalton M. Muyumba.
260 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2009.
263 $a0907
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
600 10 $aEllison, Ralph$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aBaldwin, James,$d1924-1987$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aBaraka, Imamu Amiri,$d1934-$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aJazz in literature.
650 0 $aJazz$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aImprovisation (Music)