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Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism, African American authors, Jazz in literature, Jazz, American literature, Improvisation (Music), Improvisation, Intellektuelle Anschauung, Ellison, ralph, 1914-1994, Baldwin, james, 1924-1987, Baraka, amiri, 1934-2014, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, Jazz, history and criticism, Improvisation (music)Edition | Availability |
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Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism
2009, University of Chicago Press
in English
0226554252 9780226554259
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The shadow and the act: black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism
2009, The University of Chicago Press
in English
0226554236 9780226554235
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Table of Contents
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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