Thriving on a Riff : Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Literature and Film

SUMARIO. Introduction: You've got to be jazzistic // I. So black and blue : music, image, identity. You ain't got to be black to be black : music, race, consciousness, and identity in The autobiography of an ex-colored man and Mojo hand ; Nick Heffernan / Blackface minstrelsy and jazz signification in Hollywood's early sound era ; Corin Willis // II. Paging the devil : jazz and blues poetics. Thanks, Jack, for that : the strange legacies of Sterling A. Brown ; Steven C. Tracy / Phraseology : an interview with Michael S. Harper / Paul Beatty's White boy shuffle blues : jazz poetry, John Coltrane, and the post-soul aesthetic ; Bertram D. Ashe / Giving voice : an interview with Jayne Cortez ; Out of this world : music and spirit in the writings of Nathaniel Mackey and Amiri Baraka ; David Murray // III. Until the real thing : biography, autobiography, and other fictions. Blaxploitation Bird : Ross Russell's pulp addiction ; John Gennari / How many miles? Alternate takes on the jazz life ; Krin Gabbard // IV. Second balcony jump : unsettling the score. A rebus of democratic slants and angles: to have and have not, racial representation and musical performance in a democracy at war ; Ian Brookes / No brotherly love : Hollywood jazz, racial prejudice and John Lewis's score for Odds against tomorrow ; David Butler / Anatomy of a movie : Duke Ellington and 1950s film scoring ; Mervyn Cooke // V. Criss cross : jazzisticologics. Jumping tracks : the path of conduction ; Michael Jarrett.