Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present

by Sascha Feinstein

Book Overview

Embracing the entire history of jazz poetry, the work defines this inspired literary genre as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music. It discusses the major figures and various movements from the racist poems of the 1920s to contemporary times when the tone of jazz poetry experienced a dramatic change from elegy to celebration. The jazz music of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane transliterated into poetry by the likes of Langston Hughes and Sterling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313295158
• ISBN13: 9780313295157
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"