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Jazz Poetry - From the 1920s to the Present (Paperback)
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Jazz Poetry - From the 1920s to the Present (Paperback)
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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 musical 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 changein tone from elegy to joy.
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