- Introduction: “I Thought I Heard”: The Origins of Jazz and the Ends of Jazz Writing
- 1. Louis Armstrong and the Syntax of Scat
- 2. Toward a Poetics of Transcription: James Weldon Johnson’s Prefaces
- 3. The Literary Ellington
- 4. The Race for Space: Sun Ra’s Poetry
- 5. Zoning Mary Lou Williams Zoning
- 6. Let’s Call This: Henry Threadgill and the Micropoetics of the Song Title
- 7. Notes on Poetics Regarding Mackey’s Song
- 8. Come Out
- Afterword: Hearing across Media
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Epistrophies
Jazz and the Literary Imagination
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Publication Date: 06/05/2017
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