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This is a study of migration as depicted in African-American literature, letters, music and painting. Covering the period 1923-1992, the author identifies the "migration narrative" as a dominant African-American cultural tradition.

Fiction --- Thematology --- Literary rhetorics --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- City and town life in literature --- Migration [Internal ] in literature --- Migration [Rural-urban ] in literature --- Migration ville-campagne dans la littérature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Rural-urban migration in literature --- Stad-platteland migratie in de literatuur --- Stadsleven in de literatuur --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- Vie urbaine dans la littérature --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- American fiction --- Migration, Internal, in literature --- City and town life in literature. --- Roman américain --- Exode rural dans la littérature --- Migration intérieure dans la littérature --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Ecrivains noirs américains --- Histoire et critique --- African Americans --- Rural-urban migration in literature. --- Migration, Internal, in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Intellectual life. --- Afro-American art. --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- Roman américain --- Exode rural dans la littérature --- Migration intérieure dans la littérature --- Vie urbaine dans la littérature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Ecrivains noirs américains --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- African American intellectuals --- African American authors&delete& --- Morrison, Toni --- Vie rurale --- Noirs américains --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Dans la littérature --- Noirs américains --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Dans la littérature

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Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music to define-it is a culture. Considering musicians and filmmakers, painters and poets, the intellectual improvisations in Uptown Conversation reevaluate, reimagine, and riff on the music that has for more than a century initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures. Building on Robert G. O'Meally's acclaimed Jazz Cadence of American Culture, these original essays offer new insights in jazz historiography, highlighting the political stakes in telling the story of the music and evaluating its cultural import in the United States and worldwide. Articles contemplating the music's experimental wing-such as Salim Washington's meditation on Charles Mingus and the avant-garde or George Lipsitz's polemical juxtaposition of Ken Burns's documentary Jazz and Horace Tapscott's autobiography Songs of the Unsung-share the stage with revisionary takes on familiar figures in the canon: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong.

Jazz --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Armstrong, Louis --- Mackey, Nathaniel --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo

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Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his "solo" turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition, the blend of research, anecdote, and a selection of Dexter's personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter, "Man, you ought to leave your karma to science." Dexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums, on film, and in jazz lore--even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. This essential book is an attempt to fill in the gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself.

Saxophonists --- Jazz musicians --- Gordon, Dexter, --- anecdote. --- celebrated trumpet genius. --- colorful life. --- cool jazzman. --- copenhagen. --- creative outsider. --- dexter gordon. --- dizzy gillespie. --- father. --- humor and wisdom. --- husband. --- iconic. --- innovator of modern jazz. --- jazz composition. --- jazz lore. --- jazz music. --- legacy. --- legendary times. --- multidimensional man. --- personal letters. --- research. --- son. --- tenor saxophone. --- world citizen.

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