TY - BOOK ID - 78675508 TI - Epistrophies PY - 2017 SN - 0674979044 9780674979048 9780674055438 0674055438 0674979028 PB - Cambridge, MA DB - UniCat KW - Music and literature KW - American literature KW - Jazz in literature. KW - Jazz KW - African American aesthetics. KW - Aesthetics, African American KW - Afro-American aesthetics KW - Aesthetics, American KW - Literature and music KW - Literature KW - History. KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Amiri Baraka. KW - Duke Ellington. KW - Epistrophy. KW - Henry Threadgill. KW - James Weldon Johnson. KW - Kenny Clarke. KW - Louis Armstrong. KW - Nathaniel Mackey. KW - Sun Ra. KW - Thelonious Monk. KW - jazz literature. KW - Musique et littérature KW - Littérature américaine KW - Histoire. KW - Auteurs noirs américains KW - Histoire et critique. KW - Dans la littérature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78675508 AB - From its inception, African American literature has taken shape in relation to music. Black writing is informed by the conviction that music is the privileged archival medium of black communal experience--that music provides a "tone parallel" (in Duke Ellington's phrase) to African American history. Throughout the tradition, this conviction has compelled African American writers to discover models of literary form in the medium of musical performance. Black music, in other words, has long been taken to suggest strategies for writerly experimentation, for pressing against and extending the boundaries of articulate expression. Epistrophies seeks to come to terms with this foundational interface by considering the full variety of "jazz literature"--Both writing informed by the music and the surprisingly large body of writing by jazz musicians themselves. ER -