Negotiating Temporal Differences: Blues, Jazz and Narrativity in African Culture

by Wilfried Raussert

Exploring the temporal dimension of African American music in its development from early forms of blues and jazz to the free and fast-paced sequences of jazz musicians such as John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, this volume addresses music as a key metaphor for the analysis of time in African American culture. Two narrative strategies emerge from tracing the impact of musical time on narrativity in an intercultural sphere - novels by Langston Hughes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3825311139
• ISBN13: 9783825311131
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
• Length: 173 Pages