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The Drum Is a Wild Woman - Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora Literature (Hardcover)
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The Drum Is a Wild Woman - Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora Literature (Hardcover)
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In 1957, Duke Ellington released the influential album A Drum Is a
Woman. This musical allegory revealed the implicit truth about the
role of women in jazz discourse-jilted by the musician and replaced
by the drum. Further, the album's cover displays an image of a
woman sitting atop a drum, depicting the way in which the drum
literally obscures the female body, turning the subject into an
object. This objectification of women leads to a critical reading
of the role of women in jazz music: If the drum can take the place
of a woman, then a woman can also take the place of a drum. The
Drum Is a Wild Woman: Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora
Literature challenges that image but also defines a
counter-tradition within women's writing that involves the
reinvention and reclamation of a modern jazz discourse. Despite
their alienation from bebop, women have found jazz music empowering
and have demonstrated this power in various ways. The Drum Is a
Wild Woman explores the complex relationship between women and jazz
music in recent African diasporic literature. The book examines how
women writers from the African diaspora have challenged and revised
major tropes and concerns of jazz literature since the bebop era in
the mid-1940s. Black women writers create dissonant sounds that
broaden our understanding of jazz literature. By underscoring the
extent to which gender is already embedded in jazz discourse,
author Patricia G. Lespinasse responds to and corrects narratives
that tell the story of jazz through a male-centered lens. She
concentrates on how the Wild Woman, the female vocalist in classic
blues, used blues and jazz to push the boundaries of Black
womanhood outside of the confines of respectability. In texts that
refer to jazz in form or content, the Wild Woman constitutes a
figure of resistance who uses language, image, and improvisation to
refashion herself from object to subject. This book breaks new
ground by comparing the politics of resistance alongside moments of
improvisation by examining recurring literary
motifs-cry-and-response, the Wild Woman, and the jazz moment-in
jazz novels, short stories, and poetry, comparing works by Ann
Petry, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat,
and Maya Angelou with pieces by Albert Murray, Ralph Ellison, James
Baldwin, and Ellington. Within an interdisciplinary and
transnational context, Lespinasse foregrounds the vexed
negotiations around gender and jazz discourse.
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