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Jazz Poems

Kevin Young
Jazz Poems Book PDF

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015064704771

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A vital and surprising hardcover collection of poems about, and inspired by, jazz music. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Selected and Edited by Kevin Young. Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them. From the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force—one that Jazz Poems makes palpable. We hear it in the poems of Langston Hughes, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Frank O’Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks, and in those of Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Simic, Rita Dove, Ntozake Shange, Mark Doty, William Matthews, and C. D. Wright. Here are poems that pay tribute to jazz’s great voices, and poems that throb with the vivid rhythm and energy of the jazz tradition, ranging in tone from mournful elegy to sheer celebration. Includes: • “Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret” by Langston Hughes • “God Bless the Child” by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. • “Jazz Fantasia” by Carl Sandburg • “Ol’ Bunk’s Band” by William Carlos Williams • “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks • “Chasing the Bird” by Robert Creeley • “Victrola” by Robert Pinsky • “Pres Spoke in a Language” by Amiri Baraka • “The Day Lady Died” by Frank O’Hara • “Art Pepper” by Edward Hirsch • “Snow” by Billy Collins Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

The Muse is Music

Meta DuEwa Jones
The Muse is Music Book PDF

Author : Meta DuEwa Jones
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780252036217

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This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken word poetry. Examining established poets such as Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and Nathaniel Mackey as well as a generation of up-and-coming contemporary writers and performers, Meta DuEwa Jones highlights the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality within the jazz tradition and its representation in poetry. Applying prosodic analysis to emphasize the musicality of African American poetic performance, she examines the gendered meanings evident in collaborative performances and in the criticism, images, and sounds circulating within jazz cultures. Jones also considers poets who participated in contemporary venues for black writing such as the Dark Room Collective and the Cave Canem Foundation, including Harryette Mullen, Elizabeth Alexander, and Carl Phillips. Incorporating a finely honed discussion of the Black Arts Movement, the poetry-jazz fusion of the late 1950s, and slam and spoken word performance milieus such as Def Poetry Jam, she focuses on jazz and hip hop-influenced performance artists including Tracie Morris, Saul Williams, and Jessica Care Moore. Through attention to cadence, rhythm, and structure, The Muse is Music fills a gap in literary scholarship by attending to issues of gender in jazz and poetry and by analyzing recordings of poets both with and without musical accompaniment. Applying the methodology of textual close reading to a critical "close listening" of American poetry's resonant soundscape, Jones's analyses include exploring the formal innovation and queer performance of Langston Hughes's recorded collaboration with jazz musicians, delineating the relationship between punctuation and performance in the post-soul John Coltrane poem, and closely examining jazz improvisation and hip-hop stylization. An elaborate articulation of the connections between jazz, poetry and spoken word, and gender, The Muse Is Music offers valuable criticism of specific texts and performances and a convincing argument about the shape of jazz and African-American poetic performance in the contemporary era.

Jazz Griots

Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Jazz Griots Book PDF

Author : Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739166741

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Jazz Griots by Jean-Philippe Marcoux Pdf

This study is about how four representative African American poets in the 1960s, Langston Hughes, Umbra’s David Henderson, and the Black Arts Movement’s Sonia Sanchez, and Amiri Baraka engage, in the tradition of African griots, in poetic dialogues with aesthetics, music, politics, and Black History, and in so doing narrate, using jazz as meta-language, genealogies, etymologies, cultural legacies, and Black (hi)stories. In intersecting and complementary ways, Hughes, Henderson, Sanchez, and Baraka fashioned their griotism from theorizations of artistry as political engagement, and, in turn, formulated a Black aesthetic based on jazz performativity –a series of jazz-infused iterations that form a complex pattern of literary, musical, historical, and political moments in constant cross-fertilizing dialogues with one another. This form of poetic call-and-response is essential for it allows the possibility of intergenerational dialogues between poets and musicians as well as dialogical potential between song and politics, between Africa and Black America, within the poems. More importantly, these jazz dialogisms underline the construction of the Black Aesthetic as conceptualized respectively by the griotism of Hughes, of Henderson, and of Sanchez and Baraka.

Translating Jazz Into Poetry

Erik Redling
Translating Jazz Into Poetry Book PDF

Author : Erik Redling
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110339017

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Translating Jazz Into Poetry by Erik Redling Pdf

The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

Major Features of Langston Hughes' Jazz Poetry. An Analyis of his Poem "Railroad Avenue"

Roswitha Mayer
Major Features of Langston Hughes Jazz Poetry An Analyis of his Poem Railroad Avenue Book PDF

Author : Roswitha Mayer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668257375

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Major Features of Langston Hughes' Jazz Poetry. An Analyis of his Poem "Railroad Avenue" by Roswitha Mayer Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (American Studies Department), course: American Modernism, language: English, abstract: How did Langston Hughes shape music into poetry, what were the items of his jazz poetry and what message did he want to mediate? Concerning the items and message of jazz poetry, secondary literature offers no help. Reading Hughes' jazz poems and combining it with the status of jazz music and Hughes' view of art, the following assumptions are plausible: Hughes’ jazz poetry tries with literary devices to imitate jazz music. This poetry reflects to reflect modern, urban black poplar culture. His poems transmit a new black self- confidence. The aim of this paper is to give reasons for those assumptions by analyzing a jazz poem closely. The poem that is to be analyzed is called „Railroad Avenue“ and was published first in 1926.

Jazz Age Poet

Veda Boyd Jones
Jazz Age Poet Book PDF

Author : Veda Boyd Jones
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822563464

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The author of such poems as I, To; Sing America; and The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes combined his experiences and emotions with the rhythms and themes he found in jazz music to create an exciting new style of poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Hughes won many awards and honors for his various books of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, children’s books, autobiographies, and magazine articles. Despite always struggling to succeed financially, Hughes never gave up trying to be a better writer, and a better man.

First Book Of Jazz

Langston Hughes
First Book Of Jazz Book PDF

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 0880015527

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An introduction to jazz which focuses on its historical development.

Jazz Poetry

Sascha Feinstein
Jazz Poetry Book PDF

Author : Sascha Feinstein
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015041773485

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Jazz Poetry by Sascha Feinstein Pdf

Embracing the entire history of jazz poetry, the work defines this inspired literary genre as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music. It discusses the major figures and various movements from the racist poems of the 1920s to contemporary times when the tone of jazz poetry experienced a dramatic change from elegy to celebration. The jazz music of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane transliterated into poetry by the likes of Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown is but a part of this vital work. This unusual volume will be of interest to scholars and students of literature, music, American and African Studies, and popular culture as well as anyone who enjoys jazz and poetry. Emphasis is given to a call and response between white and African American writers. The earliest jazz poems by white writers from the 1920s, for example, reflected the general anxieties evoked by jazz, particularly regarding race and sexuality, and jazz did not fully become embraced in American verse until Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown published their first books in 1926 and 1932, respectively. By the 1950s, jazz poetry had become a fad, featuring jazz and poetry in performance, and this book spends considerable time addressing the energetic but often wildly unsuccessful work by dominantly white, West coast writers who turned to Charlie Parker as their hero. African American poets from the 1960s, however, focused more on John Coltrane and interpreted his music as a representation of the Black Civil Rights movement. Jazz poetry from the 1970s to the present has had less to do with this call and response between races, and the final two chapters discuss contemporary jazz poetry in terms of its dramatic change in tone from elegy to joy.

Jazz Poems

Kevin Young
Jazz Poems Book PDF

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400042517

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Jazz Poems by Kevin Young Pdf

Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them. From the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force—one that Jazz Poems makes palpable. We hear it in the poems of Langston Hughes, E. E. cummings, William Carlos Williams, Frank O’Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks, and in those of Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Simic, Rita Dove, Ntozake Shange, Mark Doty, William Matthews, and C. D. Wright. Here are poems that pay tribute to jazz’s great voices, and poems that throb with the vivid rhythm and energy of the jazz tradition, ranging in tone from mournful elegy to sheer celebration.

Moment's Notice

Art Lange,Nathaniel Mackey
Moment s Notice Book PDF

Author : Art Lange,Nathaniel Mackey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : African American jazz musicians
ISBN : 1566890012

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Moment's Notice by Art Lange,Nathaniel Mackey Pdf

The editors have collected the jazz-inspired works of close to sixty writers ranging from Julio Cortazar and Jessica Hagedorn to Langston Hughes and Ishmael Reed."Moment's Notice is the best anthology of jazz literature I've ever seen."--Bart Schneider,Hungry Mind Review ¶"The jazz anthology to end all jazz anthologies."--Booklist

Poetry Kaleidoscope

Nicolae Sfetcu
Poetry Kaleidoscope Book PDF

Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Poetry Kaleidoscope by Nicolae Sfetcu Pdf

Introduction in poetry: nature of poetry, tools, history, terms (periods, styles and movements, technical means, tropes, measures of verse, verse forms, national poetry... Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. The increased emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the deliberate use of features such as repetition, meter and rhyme, are what are commonly used to distinguish poetry from prose, but debates over such distinctions still persist, while the issue is confounded by such forms as prose poetry and poetic prose. Some modernists (such as the Surrealists) approach this problem of definition by defining poetry not as a literary genre within a set of genres, but as the very manifestation of human imagination, the substance which all creative acts derive from.

Jazz Fan Looks Back

Jayne Cortez
Jazz Fan Looks Back Book PDF

Author : Jayne Cortez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015054264018

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Jayne Cortez understands better than most how to make spoken words swing and rock. --Gene Seymour, Newsday.

The Jazz Poetry Anthology

Sascha Feinstein,Yusef Komunyakaa
The Jazz Poetry Anthology Book PDF

Author : Sascha Feinstein,Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015021852614

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The Jazz Poetry Anthology by Sascha Feinstein,Yusef Komunyakaa Pdf

..". in a class by itself... sensitive, moving, and powerful jazz imagery... the perfect companion to listening to good jazz." --Jazziz Magazine "In the course of the history of jazz, there have been only a few articles that get to the core of the meaning of jazz. These poems hit it right on the head, and the book is certainly essential for anyone who is interested in our music." --Dizzy Gillespie "To those interested in the impact of jazz upon the poetry of our century I recommend this anthology altogether without reservation." --John Lucas, JazzTimes ..". essential... Its virtues are varied and copious, and not the least among them is discovering a writer whose work is new to you." --Los Angeles Reader "What makes this work most enjoyable is knowing the music and musicians and using that knowledge to understand and judge the poets' reactions to the elements in the music that please and inspire us." --MultiCultural Review "Filled with a variety of form, rhythm, and sound, this anthology is an absolute MUST for anyone who is even remotely interested in jazz and modern literature." --David Baker Since the turn of the century, poets have responded to jazz in all its musical and cultural overtones. The poems here cover the range of jazz itself: from early blues to free jazz and experimental music. Among the 132 poets included are James Baldwin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Mina Loy, Ishmael Reed, and Sonia Sanchez. This anthology represents the broad appreciation for jazz as poetic inspiration, not only from the Beat movement but from writers across the decades and around the world.

Jazz

Walter Dean Myers
Jazz Book PDF

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781430130208

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Jazz by Walter Dean Myers Pdf

"Exuberant music, powerful narration, and image-filled poetry combine to create this extraordinary recording, winner of ALA's first Odyssey Award for excellence in audiobook production." The Horn Book

The Weary Blues

Langston Hughes
The Weary Blues Book PDF

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486850566

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The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes Pdf

Immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From "The Weary Blues" to "Dream Variation," Hughes writes clearly and colorfully, and his words remain prophetic.