Erscheint: März 2027
Buch (Hardcover): Belletristik
The Great New Orleans Jass Concert
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Wesleyan University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35149135
EAN: 9780819502780
Erscheint: März 2027
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Beschreibung
A major addition to Spellman's celebrated body of work. The Great New Orleans Jass Concert. is a musical sketchbook in verse of the development of jazz in New Orleans and the unique cultural context in which it was brewed. Spellman, both a renowned poet and jazz critic, brings his knowledge and skills in both genres to bear in this poetry book whose structure is a musical performance. The book opens with overture and prelude, followed by eight sets and two intermezzos devoted to major characters and topics which comprise the narrative arc: Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Black Benny, Louis Armstrong, Octoroons, Storyville, Voodoo, and Robert Charles. This panoramic view traces the birth of jazz, the postbellum sex trade, occult religious practices, and the abiding postbellum violence of racism. International juxtapositions appear as reverberations in a coda set in a simultaneous period in Europe. The heart-rending encore underscores the unresolved issues on the home front with Plessy v Ferguson. The musical expertise and poetic prowess of A. B. Spellman are exquisitely rendered in a poetry collection that could only have been created by a virtuoso in both art forms. All the poems in this volume were written during the past four years and are previously unpublished. [SAMPLE POEM]Jelly Roll the Sweetback Man. if you wanted to be a sweetback manyou had to know how to dressnever match your pants with your blue coatalways a stripe in pants so tightthe top button could never closelean your body as far away from the post as you can so your pants stay pressed & shirt open to flash your red flannel undershirtwhen you walk shoot a good agate hands at the side index finger straight out & strut smooth & slow in your stetson hat & st louis flats with cork soles that turned up at the toes mine bent damn near to my ankleslight bulbs in the toes & switches in the pocketthe women went crazy when you flashed your shoes at them then you was a sweetback man.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Lauri Scheyer
- A B Spellman
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2027
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 160