black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism /
Walton M. Muyumba
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009
xi, 216 p. ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-196) and index
Introduction: Vamping 'til ready -- Three ways of looking at a yardbird : Charlie Parker and the theorization of jazz improvisation in the work of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Black is, black ain't : violence, black masculinity, and the novel as democratic symbol -- Cutting session : Baldwin as prizefighting intellectual, Baldwin as improvising intellectual -- Improvising over the changes : improvisation as intellectual and aesthetic practice in the transitional poems of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Coda
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Baldwin, James,1924-1987-- Criticism and interpretation
Baraka, Amiri,1934-Criticism and interpretation
Ellison, Ralph-- Criticism and interpretation
American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism