Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings: 1 (Modern Library Classics) - Softcover

Ellison, Ralph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375760237 ISBN 13: 9780375760235

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Ellison Ralph

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Críticas:

"No Ellison fan or jazz aficionado should ignore this book." --Publishers Weekly

"Most of us just listen to it, but Ellison truly inhabited jazz. Lovingly collected here for the first time are the crème de la crème of his music pieces. . . . Prose rarely resonates like this." --Library Journal

"The nonfiction pieces repackaged here include considerations of blues, gospel, and flamenco. . . . As the slips of fiction and correspondence gathered here testify, all Ellison writing is jazz writing." --Entertainment Weekly

"[Ellison] may have stopped playing jazz, but he never stopped celebrating it throughout his long literary career." --The Washington Post

"Whether he is writing a homage to Ellington on his seventieth birthday, analyzing how the blues infuses Richard Wright's autobiography or reviewing recordings of Mahalia Jackson, Ellison is insightful while keeping the focus on what role the music plays in American culture." --The New York Times Book Review

Reseña del editor:

Examines the lesser-known musical life of Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, as seen through his fictional and non-fictional essays that include studies on the art of jazz and profiles of famous musicians. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375760237
• ISBN 13: 9780375760235
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Herausgeber: O'Meally Robert