"David Yaffe's "Fascinating Rhythm" is a marvelously evocative
celebration of the interrelationships between modern American
writing and jazz, which is in itself the outstanding American
contribution to the arts, at least since Walt Whitman. I find
particularly poignant the understanding that Ralph Ellison's true
sequel to his "Invisible Man" was his poetics of jazz."--Harold
Bloom
"This is a fascinating and formidable response to Ralph
Ellison's famous call for a 'jazz-shaped' reading of American
literature. Yaffe's bold and often brilliant treatments of
black-Jewish relations in twentieth-century U.S. culture, Ellison's
own seminal works, poetry and jazz influences, and the
autobiographies of Mingus, Holiday, and Miles Davis are major
contributions to American and Afro-American studies."--Cornel West,
Princeton University
""Fascinating Rhythm" is an extremely absorbing and compelling
demonstration of the key part jazz played in the construction of
literary modernism. The book demonstrates an unusually mature
intellectual self-possession and great analytic insight into U.S.
cultural history, particularly the area of race and music. Yaffe is
on his way to becoming one of the most notable public and scholarly
writers of his generation."--Eric Lott, University of Virginia,
author of "Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American
Working Class"
"David Yaffe's "Fascinating Rhythm" does not simply fill a
gaping vacuum in contemporary literary studies. It is likely to
become the canonical text on jazz and literature, radically
influencing all future writing on the subject. Each chapter is
unique in its approach and sheds new light on books and poems we
thought we knew."--KrinGabbard, State University of New York
"Written with a combination of vigor and shrewdness that is rare
in jazz studies, "Fascinating Rhythm" possesses a clarity of
argument that is both inviting and provocative. Yaffe captures the
flavor of the jazz musicians and writers he covers--something of
the elegance of Ralph Ellison, the saltiness of Miles Davis, and
the bristle and energy of Charles Mingus."--Scott Saul, University
of California, Berkeley
"Yaffe is one of the best informed--probably the best--of the
younger scholars working in the relationship of jazz and the arts.
His writing is clear, his descriptions evocative, and his comments
judicious and shrewd. This is a book that should be read by serious
students of America's arts, including the jazz scholars, and those
in literature, American history, and American studies."--John
Szwed, Yale University
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