- Gebundene Ausgabe: 184 Seiten
- Verlag: Univ of Iowa Pr (September 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0877457778
- ISBN-13: 978-0877457770
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24,3 x 14,7 x 1,7 cm
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Ralph Waldo Ellison was widely regarded during his lifetime as one of the deans of American letters. Although best known for his 1952 novel Invisible Man, Ellison was a prolific essayist and wrote numerous commentaries on race, culture, and other uniquely American complexities. Jazz was one of Ellison's obsessions--he was an aspiring trumpeter before he became a writer--and he wrote extensively on jazz, as a critic of the music and of jazz as a metaphor for American diversity, spontaneity, and complexity. Porter's analysis of Ellison's essays covers both of these themes, and he includes a discussion of the correspondence between Ellison and his close friends and collaborators, painter Romare Bearden and fellow critic Albert Murray. Essays on jazz influence in Invisible Man and Ellison's posthumous second novel, Juneteenth, are included, as well as commentary on Ellison's famous arguments with his critics, such as Amiri Baraka, Irving Howe, and Norman Mailer. Porter's commentary is enlightening but no substitute for the essays themselves. Ted Leventhal
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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This title reassesses Ralph Ellison and explores his writings and views on American culture through the lens of jazz music. Horace Porter's study addresses Ellison's jazz background, including his essays and comments about jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker. Porter further examines the influences of Ellington and Armstrong as sources of the writer's personal and artistic inspiration and highlights the significance of Ellison's camaraderie with two African American friends and fellow jazz fans - the writer Albert Murray and the painter Romare Bearden. Most notably, "Jazz Country" demonstrates how Ellison appropriated jazz techniques in his two novels, "Invisible Man" and "Juneteenth". Using jazz as the key metaphor, Porter refocuses old interpretations of Ellison by placing jazz in the foreground and by emphasizing, especially as revealed in his essays, the power of Ellison's thought and cultural perception. The self-proclaimed "custodian of American culture", Ellison offers a vision of "jazz-shaped" America - a world of improvization, individualism and infinite possibility.
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