The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism - Hardcover

Muyumba, Walton M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226554236 ISBN 13: 9780226554235

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2009

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"This is an extraordinary book. Muyumba's pathbreaking account of Ellison, Baraka, and Baldwin's aesthetic theories and the connection between those theories and African American politics is creative and convincing." - Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Princeton University"

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Though often thought of as rivals, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka shared a range of interests, especially a passion for music. Jazz, in particular, was a decisive influence on their thinking, and, as "The Shadow and the Act" reveals, they drew on their insights into the creative process of improvisation to analyze race and politics in the civil rights era. In this inspired study Walton M. Muyumba situates these thinkers as a jazz trio, demonstrating how Ellison, Baraka, and Baldwin's individual works form a series of calls and responses with each other. Muyumba connects their writings on jazz to the philosophical tradition of pragmatism, particularly its support for more freedom for individuals and more democratic societies. He examines the way they responded to and elaborated on that lineage, showing how they significantly broadened it by addressing the African American experience, especially its aesthetics. Ultimately, Muyumba contends, the trio enacted pragmatist principles by effectively communicating the social and political benefits of African Americans fully entering society, thereby compelling America to move closer to its democratic ideals.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0226554236
• ISBN 13: 9780226554235
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232