The Resource Playing the changes : from Afro-modernism to the jazz impulse, Craig Hansen Werner
Playing the changes : from Afro-modernism to the jazz impulse, Craig Hansen Werner
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The item Playing the changes : from Afro-modernism to the jazz impulse, Craig Hansen Werner represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- "In Playing the Changes, Craig Hansen Werner presents a polyrhythmic approach to the continuities and discontinuities of the American literary tradition. He focuses on the relationship between two superficially distinct traditions: European (post)modernism and African American culture in both literary and musical forms." "A primary contribution of Playing the Changes is its exploration of different "phrasings" of issues important to highly conscious African American artists from the late nineteenth century (Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman) to the 1990s (Toni Morrison's Jazz)." "A final sequence highlights the centrality of black music to African American writing, arguing that recognizing blues, gospel, and jazz as theoretically suggestive cultural practices rather than specific musical forms points to what is most distinctive in twentieth-century African American writing: its ability to subvert attempts to limit its engagement with psychological, historical, political, or aesthetic realities."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxvi, 341 p.
- Contents
-
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: (Re)Phrasings and the Study of African-American Literature
- 1.
- Framing of Charles W. Chesnutt.
- p. 3
- 2.
- Endurance and Excavation: Afro-American Responses to Faulkner.
- p. 27
- 3.
- Brier Patch as (Post)modernist Myth: Morrison, Barthes, and Tar Baby As-Is.
- p. 63
- 4.
- On the Ends of Afro-Modernist Autobiography.
- p. 84
- 5.
- Black Dialectics: Kennedy, Bullins, Knight, Dumas, Lorde.
- p. 103
- 6.
- Black Blues in the City: The Voices of Gwendolyn Brooks.
- p. 142
- 7.
- Blues for T. S. Eliot and Langston Hughes: Melvin B. Tolson's Afro-Modernist Aesthetic.
- p. 162
- 8.
- Bigger's Blues: Native Son and the Articulation of Afro-American Modernism.
- p. 183
- 9.
- James Baldwin: Politics and the Gospel Impulse.
- p. 212
- 10.
- Leon Forrest and the AACM: The Jazz Impulse and the Chicago Renaissance.
- p. 241
- 11.
- Burden and the Binding Song: August Wilson's Neoclassical Jazz.
- p. 263
- Epilogue: Improvisations toward a New Phrasing: West Afrocentrism, Meta-Funk, and the Interiors of Jazz.
- p. 288
- Works Cited.
- p. 305
- Index.
- p. 317
- Isbn
- 9780252066412
- Label
- Playing the changes : from Afro-modernism to the jazz impulse
- Title
- Playing the changes
- Title remainder
- from Afro-modernism to the jazz impulse
- Statement of responsibility
- Craig Hansen Werner
- Subject
-
- African Americans in literature
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
- African American aesthetics
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Music and literature -- History -- 20th century
- Jazz in literature
- African Americans -- Music | History and criticism
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In Playing the Changes, Craig Hansen Werner presents a polyrhythmic approach to the continuities and discontinuities of the American literary tradition. He focuses on the relationship between two superficially distinct traditions: European (post)modernism and African American culture in both literary and musical forms." "A primary contribution of Playing the Changes is its exploration of different "phrasings" of issues important to highly conscious African American artists from the late nineteenth century (Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman) to the 1990s (Toni Morrison's Jazz)." "A final sequence highlights the centrality of black music to African American writing, arguing that recognizing blues, gospel, and jazz as theoretically suggestive cultural practices rather than specific musical forms points to what is most distinctive in twentieth-century African American writing: its ability to subvert attempts to limit its engagement with psychological, historical, political, or aesthetic realities."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1952-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Werner, Craig Hansen
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS153.N5
- LC item number
- W38 1994
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- American literature
- American literature
- African Americans
- Music and literature
- Modernism (Literature)
- African Americans in literature
- African American aesthetics
- Jazz in literature
- Label
- Playing the changes : from Afro-modernism to the jazz impulse, Craig Hansen Werner
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-315) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: (Re)Phrasings and the Study of African-American Literature
- 1.
- Framing of Charles W. Chesnutt.
- p. 3
- 2.
- Endurance and Excavation: Afro-American Responses to Faulkner.
- p. 27
- 3.
- Brier Patch as (Post)modernist Myth: Morrison, Barthes, and Tar Baby As-Is.
- p. 63
- 4.
- On the Ends of Afro-Modernist Autobiography.
- p. 84
- 5.
- Black Dialectics: Kennedy, Bullins, Knight, Dumas, Lorde.
- p. 103
- 6.
- Black Blues in the City: The Voices of Gwendolyn Brooks.
- p. 142
- 7.
- Blues for T. S. Eliot and Langston Hughes: Melvin B. Tolson's Afro-Modernist Aesthetic.
- p. 162
- 8.
- Bigger's Blues: Native Son and the Articulation of Afro-American Modernism.
- p. 183
- 9.
- James Baldwin: Politics and the Gospel Impulse.
- p. 212
- 10.
- Leon Forrest and the AACM: The Jazz Impulse and the Chicago Renaissance.
- p. 241
- 11.
- Burden and the Binding Song: August Wilson's Neoclassical Jazz.
- p. 263
- Epilogue: Improvisations toward a New Phrasing: West Afrocentrism, Meta-Funk, and the Interiors of Jazz.
- p. 288
- Works Cited.
- p. 305
- Index.
- p. 317
- Control code
- 29670944
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxvi, 341 p.
- Isbn
- 9780252066412
- Lccn
- 94000711
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- Playing the changes : from Afro-modernism to the jazz impulse, Craig Hansen Werner
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-315) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: (Re)Phrasings and the Study of African-American Literature
- 1.
- Framing of Charles W. Chesnutt.
- p. 3
- 2.
- Endurance and Excavation: Afro-American Responses to Faulkner.
- p. 27
- 3.
- Brier Patch as (Post)modernist Myth: Morrison, Barthes, and Tar Baby As-Is.
- p. 63
- 4.
- On the Ends of Afro-Modernist Autobiography.
- p. 84
- 5.
- Black Dialectics: Kennedy, Bullins, Knight, Dumas, Lorde.
- p. 103
- 6.
- Black Blues in the City: The Voices of Gwendolyn Brooks.
- p. 142
- 7.
- Blues for T. S. Eliot and Langston Hughes: Melvin B. Tolson's Afro-Modernist Aesthetic.
- p. 162
- 8.
- Bigger's Blues: Native Son and the Articulation of Afro-American Modernism.
- p. 183
- 9.
- James Baldwin: Politics and the Gospel Impulse.
- p. 212
- 10.
- Leon Forrest and the AACM: The Jazz Impulse and the Chicago Renaissance.
- p. 241
- 11.
- Burden and the Binding Song: August Wilson's Neoclassical Jazz.
- p. 263
- Epilogue: Improvisations toward a New Phrasing: West Afrocentrism, Meta-Funk, and the Interiors of Jazz.
- p. 288
- Works Cited.
- p. 305
- Index.
- p. 317
- Control code
- 29670944
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxvi, 341 p.
- Isbn
- 9780252066412
- Lccn
- 94000711
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- African Americans in literature
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
- African American aesthetics
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Music and literature -- History -- 20th century
- Jazz in literature
- African Americans -- Music | History and criticism
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