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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Jazz |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Porter, Horace A., 1950- Jazz country. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001 (DLC) 2001027538 (OCoLC)46538671 |
Named Person: | Ralph Ellison; Ralph Ellison |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Horace A Porter |
ISBN: | 1587294052 9781587294051 |
OCLC Number: | 56109526 |
Description: | 1 online resource ([xv], 168 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Chronology: Ralph Ellison, 1914-1994 -- Jazz States: Ralph Waldo Ellison's Major Chords -- Jazz Essays -- Jazz Icons -- Jazz Trio -- Jazz Underground -- Jazz in Progress -- Jazz Preaching -- Jazz Trumpet No End. |
Responsibility: | Horace A. Porter. |
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I suspect that the one body of music which expresses the United States - which expresses this continent - is jazz and blues. - Ralph Ellison; ""Jazz Country is an appropriate and even inspired entry into the world of Ellison's writing. It explores the interplay between Ellison's passionate Love or 'appropriation' of jazz and blues and his ideas about many other important issues, including his own ideal standards in the writing of American fiction and his analysis of the broad implications of American culture itself."" - Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University; ""Ralph Ellison based his ideal of the Renaissance man, American style, on the jazz musicians he had known. In Jazz Country, Horace Porter excavates Ellison's writings on jazz for a view of the artist we have never before seen in such sharp focus."" - Diane Middlebrook, author of Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton Read more...

