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How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into, and deeply affected, the development of twentieth-century American literature. Yaffe explores how Jewish novelists such as Norman Mailer, J. D. Salinger, and Philip Roth engaged issues of racial, ethnic, and American authenticity by way of jazz; how Ralph Ellison's descriptions of Louis Armstrong led to a "neoconservative" movement in contemporary jazz; how poets such as Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, and Frank O'Hara were variously inspired by the music; and how memoirs by Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis both reinforced and redeemed the red light origins of jazz. The book confronts the current jazz discourse and shows how poets and novelists can be placed in it--often with problematic results. Fascinating Rhythm stops to listen for the music, demonstrating how jazz continues to speak for the American writer.

African American musicians in literature. --- American literature --- Jazz in literature. --- Jazz musicians in literature. --- Jazz musicians --- Music and literature --- History and criticism. --- Biography --- History --- Ellison, Ralph --- Knowledge --- Jazz. --- Afro-American musicians in literature --- אליסון, ראלף --- Musicians --- History and criticism

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

American fiction --- Jazz in literature. --- Music and literature --- Musical fiction --- African American musicians in literature. --- Jazz musicians in literature. --- Music in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Afro-American musicians in literature --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- History --- Music and literature. --- Musical fiction. --- American fiction. --- African American authors.

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African American musicians in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- African Americans --- American poetry --- English language --- Jazz in literature. --- Jazz musicians in literature. --- Music and literature --- Poetics --- Intellectual life --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Rhythm. --- History --- History and criticism --- Essays --- Jazz --- Blues --- Literatuur --- Poëzie --- Parker, Charlie --- Coltrane, John --- 20e eeuw --- Poésie américaine --- JAZZ DANS LA LITTERATURE --- POESIE AMERICAINE --- MUSICIENS NOIRS AMERICAINS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- MUSICIENS DE JAZZ DANS LA LITTERATURE --- ANGLAIS (LANGUE) --- POETIQUE --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- AUTEURS NOIRS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- RYTHME