The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word

by Meta DuEwa Jones

Book Overview

This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken word poetry. Examining established poets such as Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and Nathaniel Mackey as well as a generation of up-and-coming contemporary writers and performers, Meta DuEwa Jones highlights the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality within the jazz tradition and its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252079264
• ISBN13: 9780252079269
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"