Thriving on a riff : jazz & blues influences in African American literature and film, edited by Graham Lock and David Murray

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Paging the devil : jazz and blues poetics.
"Thanks, Jack, for that" : the strange legacies of Sterling A. Brown
Steven C. Tracy
Phraseology : an interview with Michael S. Harper
Paul Beatty's White boy shuffle blues : jazz poetry, John Coltrane, and the post-soul aesthetic
Bertram D. Ashe
Giving voice : an interview with Jayne Cortez
"Out of this world" : music and spirit in the writings of Nathaniel Mackey and Amiri Baraka
David Murray
Introduction:
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Until the real thing : biography, autobiography, and other fictions.
Blaxploitation Bird : Ross Russell's pulp addiction
John Gennari
How many miles? Alternate takes on the jazz life
Krin Gabbard
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Second balcony jump : unsettling the score.
"A
rebus of democratic slants and angles": to have and have not, racial representation and musical performance in a democracy at war
You've got to be jazzistic
Ian Brookes
"No brotherly love" : Hollywood jazz, racial prejudice and John Lewis's score for Odds against tomorrow
David Butler
Anatomy of a movie : Duke Ellington and 1950s film scoring
Mervyn Cooke
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Criss cross : jazzisticologics.
Jumping tracks : the path of conduction
Michael Jarrett
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So black and blue : music, image, identity.
You ain't got to be black to be black" : music, race, consciousness, and identity in The autobiography of an ex-colored man and Mojo hand
Nick Heffernan
Blackface minstrelsy and jazz signification in Hollywood's early sound era
Corin Willis

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