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- catalog abstract "In Playing the Changes, Craig Hansen Werner presents a polyrhythmic approach to the continuities and discontinuities of the American literary tradition. He focuses on the relationship between two superficially distinct traditions: European (post)modernism and African American culture in both literary and musical forms. A primary contribution of Playing the Changes is its exploration of different "phrasings" of issues important to highly conscious African American artists from the late nineteenth century (Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman) to the 1990s (Toni Morrison's Jazz). A final sequence highlights the centrality of black music to African American writing, arguing that recognizing blues, gospel, and jazz as theoretically suggestive cultural practices rather than specific musical forms points to what is most distinctive in twentieth-century African American writing: its ability to subvert attempts to limit its engagement with psychological, historical, political, or aesthetic realities.".
- catalog contributor b6560643.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "A final sequence highlights the centrality of black music to African American writing, arguing that recognizing blues, gospel, and jazz as theoretically suggestive cultural practices rather than specific musical forms points to what is most distinctive in twentieth-century African American writing: its ability to subvert attempts to limit its engagement with psychological, historical, political, or aesthetic realities.".
- catalog description "In Playing the Changes, Craig Hansen Werner presents a polyrhythmic approach to the continuities and discontinuities of the American literary tradition. He focuses on the relationship between two superficially distinct traditions: European (post)modernism and African American culture in both literary and musical forms. A primary contribution of Playing the Changes is its exploration of different "phrasings" of issues important to highly conscious African American artists from the late nineteenth century (Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman) to the 1990s (Toni Morrison's Jazz).".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-315) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : (Re)phrasings and the study of African-American literature -- The framing of Charles W. Chesnutt -- Endurance and excavation : Afro-American responses to Faulkner -- The brier patch as (post)modernist myth : Morrison, Barthes, and Tar baby as-is -- On the ends of Afro-modernist autobiography -- Black dialectics : Kennedy, Bullins, Knight, Dumas, Lorde -- Black blues in the city : the voices of Gwendolyn Brooks -- Blues for T.S. Eliot and Langston Hughes : Melvin B. Tolson's Afro-modernist aesthetic -- Bigger's blues : Native son and the articulation of Afro-American modernism -- James Baldwin : politics and the gospel impulse -- Leon Forrest and the AACM : the jazz impulse and the Chicago Renaissance -- The burden and the binding song : August Wilson's neoclassical jazz -- Epilogue : Improvisations toward a new phrasing : West Afrocentrism, meta-funk, and the interiors of Jazz.".
- catalog extent "xxvi, 341 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Playing the changes.".
- catalog identifier "0252021126 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Playing the changes.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog relation "Playing the changes.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "810.9/896073 20".
- catalog subject "African American aesthetics.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Music History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "American literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature African American authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature Afro-American authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Jazz in literature.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) United States.".
- catalog subject "Music and literature History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "PS153.N5 W38 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : (Re)phrasings and the study of African-American literature -- The framing of Charles W. Chesnutt -- Endurance and excavation : Afro-American responses to Faulkner -- The brier patch as (post)modernist myth : Morrison, Barthes, and Tar baby as-is -- On the ends of Afro-modernist autobiography -- Black dialectics : Kennedy, Bullins, Knight, Dumas, Lorde -- Black blues in the city : the voices of Gwendolyn Brooks -- Blues for T.S. Eliot and Langston Hughes : Melvin B. Tolson's Afro-modernist aesthetic -- Bigger's blues : Native son and the articulation of Afro-American modernism -- James Baldwin : politics and the gospel impulse -- Leon Forrest and the AACM : the jazz impulse and the Chicago Renaissance -- The burden and the binding song : August Wilson's neoclassical jazz -- Epilogue : Improvisations toward a new phrasing : West Afrocentrism, meta-funk, and the interiors of Jazz.".
- catalog title "Playing the changes : from Afro-modernism to the jazz impulse / Craig Hansen Werner.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".