Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing by David Yaffe - 2005-11-07

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Princeton University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Princeton. 2005. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691123578. 240 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literary Criticism Jazz America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into, and deeply affected, the development of twentieth-century American literature. Yaffe explores how Jewish novelists such as Norman Mailer, J. D. Salinger, and Philip Roth engaged issues of racial, ethnic, and American authenticity by way of jazz; how Ralph Ellison's descriptions of Louis Armstrong led to a ‘neoconservative' movement in contemporary jazz; how poets such as Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane,… Read More

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Hardback. New. Explores the relationship between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into, and affected, the development of twentieth-century American literature.

Princeton Univ Pr, 2005. Hardcover. New. 230 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches.

Princeton University Press, 2005-11-27. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Princeton Univ Pr, 2005. Hardcover. New. 230 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches.