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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Poetry |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Young, Kevin. Jelly roll. New York : Knopf, 2003 (DLC) 2002070935 (OCoLC)49737128 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kevin Young |
OCLC Number: | 70769492 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Awards: | Commended for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2003 Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Poetry) 2003 |
Description: | 1 online resource ([xiv], 190 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | 1. Cakewalk -- Dixieland -- Siren -- Rhythm & blues -- Shimmy -- Zoot -- Etude -- Ditty -- Ragtime -- Jingle -- Boogie-woogie -- Gutbucket -- Field song -- Cheer -- Blue movie -- Jook -- Summer song -- Overture -- Jitterbug -- Early blues -- Fantasia -- Aubade -- Blackbottom -- Nones -- Boogaloo -- Mic check -- Tune -- Can-can -- Boasts -- Song of smoke -- Swing -- Stride piano -- Prelude -- Errata -- Nocturne -- 2. Break -- Cantata: Recitative -- Aria -- Chorus -- Duet -- Blues -- Jive -- Rhapsody -- Sorrow song -- Vespers -- Player piano -- Harvest song -- Foxtrot -- Reed song -- Country) & western) -- Riff -- Bluegrass -- Disaster movie theme music -- Madrigal -- Drum talk -- Calypso -- Gumbo -- Encore -- Locomotive songs -- Autumn song -- Busking -- Doo wop -- Banjo -- Funk -- Sleepwalking psalms: Every day since -- The television we bought -- Soon I'll thank you -- Sometimes I feel like the stargazers -- When I said I didn't mind -- Stumbling home -- There are no more saints -- I love you the way a liar loves -- Barbeque dreams -- These days so hot you forget -- Chorale -- Torch song -- Fish story -- Jubilee -- Suite -- 3. Envoy -- Scherzo -- Ramble -- Anthem -- Tacit -- Honky tonk -- Saxophone solo -- Slide guitar -- Plainsong -- Lyre -- Requiem -- Dirge -- Deep song -- Evensong -- Opera -- Evensong -- Opera -- Song of sowing -- Rock -- Interlude -- & roll -- Mood -- Instrumental -- Pastorale -- Vows -- Muzak -- Hero -- Song of solstice -- Coda -- Parlor song -- Intermezzo -- Threnody -- cotillion -- Late blues -- Litany -- Elegy, Niagara Falls. |
Responsibility: | Kevin Young. |
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Abstract:
In a collection of poetry inspired by the rhythms of the blues, the poet blends traditional lyric diction with African American idiom to create such verses as "Stride Piano," Gutbucket," and "Can-Can."
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