Jazz and Literature: An Introduction presents an original collection of essays from leading international scholars, examining an array of musical and literary interconnections including improvisation, multicultural influences, poetry, modernism, the Beat movement, jazz forms, noir, solo and collective expression, global perspectives on jazz and literature, etc. This volume sheds light on the critical and creative discussions of music and literature, showing the evolving relevance of jazz in the twenty-first century. The book also includes a special section dedicated to interviews with writers, musicians, and creatives such as U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, Jericho Brown, Anthony Joseph, Geoff Dyer, Paul Hirsch, Dickie Landry, and Dwandalyn R. Reece. This volume is an ideal resource for students of music and literature and for academics interested in the creative dialogues between jazz and literature.
Edited by:
Maria Antónia Lima,
Mia Funk
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9781032264349
ISBN 10: 1032264349
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 30 December 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
INTRODUCTION Maria Antónia Lima and Mia Funk PART I - JAZZ AND LITERATURE: ELECTIVE AFFINITIES Jane Austen and John Coltrane Allen Michie Does Early Jazz Express Freedom or Possibility? Amedeo D’Adamo Modern Jazz Quintet: Hughes, Joans, Kaufman, Cortez, Komunyakaa A. Robert Lee Race and Cut-Up Improvisational Aesthetics: William Burroughs and Jazz Benjamin Heal Jazz and Futurism in Italy 1910-1935 Francesco Martinelli David Bowie’s Blackstar: Jazz, War, and Seventeenth-Century Literary Connections in “‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore” and “Sue” James Rovira Jazz as Modernity’s Challenge in Interwar Spain Juan Herrero-Senés Sounds in the Dark: Jazz in Noir Narratives Maria Antónia Lima Jazz in Brazilian and Portuguese Poetry Mário Avelar Truth has to be given in riddles: Literary Influences in the Portuguese Jazz Scene Nuno Catarino Jazz, Body, and Soul: Yusef Lateef’s Autophysiopsychic Practice Sam V.H. Reese Varieties of Religious Experience through Jazz in Cortázar’s “The Pursuer” William Levine PART II - EXPERIENCES OF CREATIVE INTERFACES Hvor En Var Baen: Places of Childhood Haftor Medbøe Four Musicians and Six Characters: Narrative Categories in Contemporary Free Jazz José Dias The Creative Process: Storytelling as an Improvisational Process Mia Funk Morte d’Miles: Time with a Virtuoso Peter Weller Inside the Mind and Heart of the Free Improviser — an Improvisation Robert Dick Notes on Improvising While Composing: Dutch Writer J. Bernlef on Writing with Jazz Scott Rollins PART III - THE CREATIVE PROCESS INTERVIEWS Music, Space, Sensation, and the Creative Process Ada Limón Jazz, Poetry, Improvisation, and the Art of Memory Anthony Joseph Portugal, Cultural Memory, and the Language of Jazz Bernardo Moreira Jazz and the Time of the Novel Bruce Evan Barnhart An Improvised Life Dickie Landry African American Music and Storytelling: A Curator’s Perspective Dwandalyn R. Reece Improvisation and Freedom, Passion and Purpose Edmar Castañeda Jazz, Film, Graphic Novels, and The Discovery of Sound Filipe Melo Writing Between the Notes Geoff Dyer On Music and the Intersection of Life and Craft Jericho Brown A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time Natalie Hodges A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away Paul Hirsch Zen, Blues, Simplicity, and The Art of Songwriting Rick Carnes Songwriting and Self-Exploration Sharon Kovacs POEMS For Ray Ana Castillo That Cat Named Bird Antonia Alexandra Klimenko My Romance Gerald Fleming Rahsaan Roland Kirk at the Village Vanguard Jeffrey Greene Chet Baker J. Bernlef Forever Monkin’ it Malik Ameer Crumpler Forward Avenue Blues (for Katherine Dunham) Michael Simms Other Leavings, Other Lives Yvette Centeno
Maria Antónia Lima is Associate Professor at the University of Évora, in Portugal, where she completed her PhD on the fiction of Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. She is a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) and teaches American Literature at the University of Évora. She was President of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) and a Board Member of the European Society for the Studies of English (ESSE). Her publications include international essays in specialized journals and critical volumes, as well as books on Gothic and the relationships between literature and the arts. Mia Funk is an artist, podcast host, writer, and creative educator. Founder of The Creative Process international educational initiative, podcast, and travelling exhibition, her varied work sees her leading workshops and mentoring students around creativity, critical thinking, environmental ethics, and humanities disciplines. Her work appears in public and private collections, including the U.S. Library of Congress, Office of Public Works, and Centre Culturel Irlandais de Paris. She’s received the Prix de Peinture from the Salon d’Automne and exhibited in the Grand Palais. Funk served on the National Advisory Council of the American Writers Museum and serves on the advisory board of the European Conference for the Humanities.
