Five Days of Bleeding: A Novel (Black Ice Books) - Softcover

Cruz, Ricardo Cortez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573660035 ISBN 13: 9781573660037

Verlag: F2C, 1995

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Five Days of Bleeding is the black experience in sound, a fight to dance and celebrate cultural roots, and the struggle of a dark homeless woman, Zu-Zu Girl, to have voice in White America.

Taunted by the violent character "Chops," Zu-Zu sings to keep her spirit alive in New York City's Central Park. Zu-Zu and the novel's narrator have a relationship which is transformed into a stormy, dreamlike urban affair. Their oppressive situation is depicted through multiple collages of sound and image, a funky mix of original and sampled cuts, both literary and musical.

The social chaos around them is remixed in a text consisting of street beats, classic breaks, and fresh-cool cadences. Bleeding proves that the loudest noises of moral panic can be gunshots, to be sure, but they can also be the very human sound of the music of hope and despair.

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Ricardo Cortez Cruz is a Decatur, Illinois native, a Professor of English at Illinois State University, and the author of two novels and more than forty short stories.

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Five Days of Bleeding is the black experience in sound, a fight to dance and celebrate cultural roots, and the struggle of a dark homeless woman, Zu-Zu Girl, to have voice in White America. Taunted by the violent character "Chops", Zu-Zu sings to keep her spirit alive in New York City's Central Park. Zu-Zu and the novel's narrator have a relationship which is transformed into a stormy, dreamlike urban affair. Their oppressive situation is depicted through multiple collages of sound and image, a funky mix of original and sampled cuts, both literary and musical. The social chaos around them is remixed in a text consisting of street beats, classic breaks, and fresh-cool cadences. Bleeding proves that the loudest noises of moral panic can be gunshots, to be sure, but they can also be the very human sound of the music of hope and despair.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: F2C
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1573660035
• ISBN 13: 9781573660037
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 130
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande