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Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing
David Yaffe
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Description for Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AVGJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691123578
SKU
V9780691123578
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About David Yaffe
David Yaffe's writings have appeared in many publications, including the "New Republic, The Nation", the "New York Times, New York Magazine", the "Boston Globe", the "Village Voice", "Slate", and the "Chronicle of Higher Education". He is Assistant Professor of English at Syracuse University.
Reviews for Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing
"David Yaffe's Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing provides a brilliant account of the music's often overlooked influence on J.D. Salinger, Philip Roth and other lights of the literary firmament"
Alex Abramovich, Playboy "This lively and provocative book exemplifies the very best of jazz writing by scholars working primarily outside the discipline of musicology."
Mervyn Cooke, Music and Letters
Alex Abramovich, Playboy "This lively and provocative book exemplifies the very best of jazz writing by scholars working primarily outside the discipline of musicology."
Mervyn Cooke, Music and Letters