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While several pioneering attempts by scholars of literature and music to prove traces of literature in jazz and vice versa

Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music by John Lowney (2017)

Afro-modernity always had distinctive features that were derived from the politics of African-derived peoples, thus this development was a unique

While today expressions like “cool,” “being cool,” “acting cool” or having a “cool” outlook on life are present almost anywhere

Together with Ralph Ellison, author, teacher, and intellectual giant Albert Murray formed the heavyweight team that was to describe, analyze

As many readers of this site will be familiar with jazz music, fewer will have heard of Kenneth Burke. This

As you may have realized the Lindy Hop, that unique American social dance originating in the late 1920s US when

Ralph Ellison, one of the greatest American authors and of particular interest to fans of blues and jazz, often stated