While popular music has long been recognized as central to the Black Power movement and its writers, jazz has also served as a mode of decolonial thinking for Red Power writers. This essay investigates the places where jazz poetry emerged, analyzes the meanings of darkness, and listens for deep connections between African American and Native American artists and their musical cultures. My analysis of selected examples of jazz poetry, from Langston Hughes’s foundational jazz and blues poems to more recent compositions by Yosef Komunyakaa and Joy Harjo, shows how jazz has traveled across racial, cultural, and gender divides to disrupt time, to articulate the symbolic and political potential of night, and to reconnect printed poetry with aural...
Raussert W. Negotiating Temporal Differences: Blues, Jazz and Narrativity in African American Cultur...
In Rhythm Changes: Jazz Rhythm in the African American Novel, I demonstrate how novelists from the H...
In my thesis paper I am examining the birth and art of jazz, which creates a vital part of American...
The goal of this essay is to look at the poems “The Weary Blues” and “JAZZTETMUTED” (hereafter to be...
This research, based on the insights of theories in the field of music and literature, tries to answ...
In this study, I examine the jazz novel from a global perspective, following recent trends in musi...
In this study, I build a case for redrawing the conceptual lines of American post-war poetry and mus...
Jazz music and spoken poetry evoke the aurality of the moment. They cannot be rewound, or redone the...
The founding hypothesis of the study is that creative writers translate jazz music and performance ...
[[abstract]]This thesis studies the manifold connections between jazz and Toni Morrison’s Jazz and t...
This essay focuses on the relationship between writers associated with the Black Arts Movement in th...
Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themsel...
A brief talk for a roundtable on the centenary of Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
1920s of American history have been known and called as the Jazz Age. This Age is featured by flouri...
Louis Armstrong famously said, if you have to ask what jazz is, you\u27ll never know. While some e...
Raussert W. Negotiating Temporal Differences: Blues, Jazz and Narrativity in African American Cultur...
In Rhythm Changes: Jazz Rhythm in the African American Novel, I demonstrate how novelists from the H...
In my thesis paper I am examining the birth and art of jazz, which creates a vital part of American...
The goal of this essay is to look at the poems “The Weary Blues” and “JAZZTETMUTED” (hereafter to be...
This research, based on the insights of theories in the field of music and literature, tries to answ...
In this study, I examine the jazz novel from a global perspective, following recent trends in musi...
In this study, I build a case for redrawing the conceptual lines of American post-war poetry and mus...
Jazz music and spoken poetry evoke the aurality of the moment. They cannot be rewound, or redone the...
The founding hypothesis of the study is that creative writers translate jazz music and performance ...
[[abstract]]This thesis studies the manifold connections between jazz and Toni Morrison’s Jazz and t...
This essay focuses on the relationship between writers associated with the Black Arts Movement in th...
Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themsel...
A brief talk for a roundtable on the centenary of Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
1920s of American history have been known and called as the Jazz Age. This Age is featured by flouri...
Louis Armstrong famously said, if you have to ask what jazz is, you\u27ll never know. While some e...
Raussert W. Negotiating Temporal Differences: Blues, Jazz and Narrativity in African American Cultur...
In Rhythm Changes: Jazz Rhythm in the African American Novel, I demonstrate how novelists from the H...
In my thesis paper I am examining the birth and art of jazz, which creates a vital part of American...