Thriving on a riff : jazz & blues influences in African American literature and film

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Thriving on a riff : jazz & blues influences in African American literature and film

edited by Graham Lock and David Murray

Oxford University Press, 2009

  • : pbk
  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780195337020

内容説明

Thriving on a Riff explores the influence of jazz and blues in two key areas of cultural expression, literature and film, where these musics have often been inextricably linked with notions of racial identity and self-representation. From the Harlem Renaissance to the present day, African American writers have adapted blues and jazz forms for their own ends. Individual chapters here focus on the distinctive approaches of writers as various as Sterling Brown (Steven C. Tracy), James Weldon Johnson and J.J. Phillips (Nick Heffernan), Paul Beatty (Bertram Ashe) and Amiri Baraka and Nathaniel Mackey (David Murray). There are interviews (by Graham Lock) with leading contemporary poets Michael S. Harper and Jayne Cortez, who also read their work on the book's companion website. The performing self, as found in autobiography as well as in music and film, is explored in Krin Gabbard's account of Miles Davis, while John Gennari investigates factual and fictional versions of Charlie Parker. Cinema's representations of musical performance have varied greatly, as is shown by essays on Hollywood's adaptations of blackface minstrelsy (Corin Willis) and Howard Hawks' view of jazz as democracy in action (Ian Brookes). Film scores too have proved controversial in deploying jazz to denote sleaze and criminality: reacting against this audio stereotyping, the more sophisticated and nuanced efforts of Duke Ellington and John Lewis are discussed by, respectively, Mervyn Cooke and David Butler. Finally, Michael Jarrett brings together many interpretative threads in proposing a new model of influence, or conduction, exemplified in the iconic sounds of the train and its various criss-crossing echoes in and through African American culture. A significant addition to the growing body of work on jazz and blues as cross-cultural influences, Thriving on a Riff presents new and provocative work by the most distinguished scholars in the field, whose perspectives span the genres.

目次

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: You've Got to be Jazzistic
  • I. MUSIC, IMAGE, AND IDENTITY
  • 1. "You Ain't Got to Be Black to beBlack": Music, Race Consciousness, and Identity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Mojo Hand
  • 2. Blackface Minstelstry and Jazz Signification in Hollywood's Early Sound Era
  • II. JAZZ, BLUES, AND LITERATURE
  • 3. "Thanks, Jack, for That": The 'Strange Legacies' of Sterling Brown
  • 4. Songlines: An Interview with Michael S. Harper
  • 5. Synthesizing the Hoodoo of Voodoo: The Music as [Dis]embodied Hero in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo
  • 6. Paul Beatty's "White Boy Shuffle" Blues: Jazz Poetry, John Coltrane, and the Post-Soul Aesthetic
  • 7. Giving Voice: An Interview with Jayne Cortez
  • 8. "Out of this World": Music and Spirit in the Writings of Nathaniel Macket and Amiri Baraka
  • III. MUSIC, IMAGE, AND IDENTITY - II
  • 9. Blaxsploitation Bird: Ross Russell's Pulp Addiction
  • IV. JAZZ, BLUES, AND FILM
  • 11. "A Rebus of Democratic Slants and Angles": the Have and Have Not, Racial Representation and Musical Performance in a Democracy at War
  • 12. "No Brotherly Love": Hollywood Jazz, Racial Prejudice and John Lewis's Score for Odds Against Tomorrow
  • 13. Anatomy of a Movie: Duke Ellington and 1950s Film Scoring
  • V. EPISTROPHY
  • 14. Jumping Tracks: The Path of Conduction
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780195337099

内容説明

From the Harlem Renaissance to the present, African American writers have drawn on the rich heritage of jazz and blues, transforming musical forms into the written word. In this companion volume to The Hearing Eye, distinguished contributors ranging from Bertram Ashe to Steven C. Tracy explore the musical influence on such writers as Sterling Brown, J.J. Phillips, Paul Beatty, and Nathaniel Mackey. Here, too, are Graham Lock's engaging interviews with contemporary poets Michael S. Harper and Jayne Cortez, along with studies of the performing self, in Krin Gabbard's account of Miles Davis and John Gennari's investigation of fictional and factual versions of Charlie Parker. The book also looks at African Americans in and on film, from blackface minstrelsy to the efforts of Duke Ellington and John Lewis to rescue jazz from its stereotyping in Hollywood film scores as a signal for sleaze and criminality. Concluding with a proposal by Michael Jarrett for a new model of artistic influence, Thriving on a Riff makes the case for the seminal cross-cultural role of jazz and blues.

目次

  • I. MUSIC, IMAGE, AND IDENTITY
  • II. JAZZ, BLUES, AND LITERATURE
  • III. MUSIC, IMAGE, AND IDENTITY - II
  • IV. JAZZ, BLUES, AND FILM
  • V. EPISTROPHY

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