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The muse is music : jazz poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to spoken word / Meta DuEwa Jones.

Author: Jones, Meta DuEwa.

Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.

Descriptionxiv, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Riff, remembrance, and revision -- Listening to what the ear demands : Langston Hughes on the (jazz) record -- Jazz prosody : the gendered contours of the post-soul Coltrane poem -- New traditions, new translations -- Opening the canary's cage : sex, gender, and the jazz body -- A cave canem continuum or a dark room renaissance : from jazz improvisation to hip-hop stylization -- Epilogue -- When the muse is music: scripting collaboration and improvisation.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-272) and index.



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Jones, Meta DuEwa.
Series Statement
The new Black studies series
Subject:
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Jazz in literature.
American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Music and literature -- History -- 20th century.
African American musicians in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Jazz musicians in literature.
English language -- Rhythm.
Series Added Entry-Uniform title
New Black studies series.