Fascinating Rhythm : Reading Jazz in American Writing
Inbunden bok. Princeton University Press . 2006. 230 sidor.
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Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780691123578
- Titel
- Fascinating rhythm - reading jazz in American writing
- Författare
- Yaffe, David
- Utgivningsår
- 2006
- Omfång
- 230 sidor
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? 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