Fascinating Rhythm
Reading Jazz in American Writing
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 j…
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- ISBN: 978-0-691-12357-8
- EAN: 9780691123578
- Produktnummer: 19386200
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.7 cm 474 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 474
Über den Autor
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.
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