Sitting in : selected writings on jazz, blues, and related topics / Hayden Carruth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

Blues (Music)--History and criticism.

Blues (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays and poems about the influence of jazz on writing and culture in this country, an expanded edition of the 1986 publication, is a rewarding volume for all those entranced by jazz. Carruth brings his considerable poetic and literary sensibilities to bear on a topic very near to his heart: ""Those who are devoted primarily to jazz, to poetry, to all the arts, are also those who contribute more intelligently than others to our practical and moral, political and social, advancement.""

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Guy Downstairs; A Chaconnade for Everyone Names Rebecca; Freedom and Discipline; Academicism; Who Cares, Long as It's B-Flat; Influences: The Formal Idea of Jazz; Joe Turner; Song about Earl Hines; With Respect to the Infuriating Pervasiveness of Optimism; A Possibly Momentary Declaration in Favor of William Butler Yeats and Chalres Ellworth Russell; Paragraph; Got Those Forever Inadequate Blues; The Intentional Alligator; Personality of Genius; Tom McGrath Is Harvesting the Snow; Authenticity in the Age of Massive, Multiplying Error

Michigan Water: A Few Riffs before DawnThree Paragraphs; The Defeated Generation; The Cowshed Blues; The Main Thing about Improvisation; The Blues Scale; Ben Webster; The Time of Falling Apart; The Blues as Poetry; In That Session; James Wright's Collected Prose; Mystery and Expressiveness; An Expatiation on the Combining of Weathers at Thirty-Seventh and Indiana Where the Southern More or Less Crosses the Dog; Instances; Letter to Maxine Sullivan; Smith; To All Human Consciousness the Clandestine Is Basal; Duncan's Dream; Coda; Meditation in the Presence of ""Ostrich Walk""

What Does ""Organic"" Mean?Good Old Wagon; Ben Webster; Anthems; The Spun-Off Independent Dead-End Ten-Star Blast; Homage to John Lyly and Frankie Newton; What a Wonder Among the Instruments Is the Walloping Tramboone; Eleven Memoranda on the Culture of Jazz

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781587290312

1587290316

OCLC:

44960045