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Author:

Muyumba, Walton M.

Title:

The shadow and the act : black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism / Walton M. Muyumba.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xi, 216 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Ellison, Ralph--Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James,--1924-1987--Criticism and interpretation.
Baraka, Imamu Amiri,--1934---Criticism and interpretation.
Jazz in literature.
Jazz--History and criticism.
Improvisation (Music)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-196) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: vamping til ready -- Movement I: Three ways of looking at a yardbird: Charlie Parker and the theorization of jazz improvisation in the work of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Le Roi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Movement II: Black is, black ain't: violence, black masculinity, and the novel as democratic symbol -- Movement III: Cutting session: Baldwin as intellectual prizefighter, Baldwin as improvising intellectual -- Movement IV: Improvising over the changes: improvisation as intellectual and aesthetic practice in the transitional poems of Le Roi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Coda.

ISBN:

0226554244 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226554242 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226554236 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226554235 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)262429500

LCCN:

2008048657

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)