Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing

by David Yaffe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691123578
• ISBN13: 9780691123578
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"