Thriving on a riff: jazz & blues influences in African American literature and film

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Acknowledgements Introduction: You've Got to be Jazzistic I. MUSIC, IMAGE, AND IDENTITY 1. You Ain't Got to Be Black to beBlack: Music, Race Consciousness, and Identity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Mojo Hand 2. Blackface Minstelstry and Jazz Signification in Hollywood's Early Sound Era II. JAZZ, BLUES, AND LITERATURE 3. Thanks, Jack, for That: The 'Strange Legacies' of Sterling Brown 4. Songlines: An Interview with Michael S. Harper 5. Synthesizing the Hoodoo of Voodoo: The Music as [Dis]embodied Hero in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo 6. Paul Beatty's White Boy Shuffle Blues: Jazz Poetry, John Coltrane, and the Post-Soul Aesthetic 7. Giving Voice: An Interview with Jayne Cortez 8. Out of this World: Music and Spirit in the Writings of Nathaniel Macket and Amiri Baraka III. MUSIC, IMAGE, AND IDENTITY - II 9. Blaxsploitation Bird: Ross Russell's Pulp Addiction 10. The Many Faces of Miles Davis IV. JAZZ, BLUES, AND FILM 11. A Rebus of Democratic Slants and Angles: the Have and Have Not, Racial Representation and Musical Performance in a Democracy at War 12. No Brotherly Love: Hollywood Jazz, Racial Prejudice and John Lewis's Score for Odds Against Tomorrow 13. Anatomy of a Movie: Duke Ellington and 1950s Film Scoring V. EPISTROPHY 14. Jumping Tracks: The Path of Conduction