The shadow and the act : black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Muyumba, Walton M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. Ellison, Ralph > Criticism and interpretation. Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987 > Criticism and interpretation. Baraka, Amiri, > 1934-2014 > Criticism and interpretation. Jazz in literature. Jazz > History and criticism. Improvisation (Music)

Table of Contents:

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.