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Saved from the flames : 54 rare and restored films 1896-1944 /
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Epistrophies : jazz and the literary imagination /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "I thought I heard" : the origins of jazz and the ends of jazz writing -- Louis Armstrong and the syntax of scat -- Towards a poetics of transcription: James Weldon Johnson's prefaces -- The literary Ellington -- The race for space: Sun Ra's poetry -- Zoning Mary Lou Williams zoning -- Let's call this: Henry Threadgill and the micropoetics of the song title -- Notes on poetics regarding Mackey's song -- Come out -- Afterword: Hearing across media.…”
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Epistrophies : jazz and the literary imagination /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "I thought I heard" : the origins of jazz and the ends of jazz writing -- Louis Armstrong and the syntax of scat -- Towards a poetics of transcription: James Weldon Johnson's prefaces -- The literary Ellington -- The race for space: Sun Ra's poetry -- Zoning Mary Lou Williams zoning -- Let's call this: Henry Threadgill and the micropoetics of the song title -- Notes on poetics regarding Mackey's song -- Come out -- Afterword: Hearing across media.…”
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Jazz A-B-Z /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Louis Armstrong -- Count Basie -- John Coltrane -- Miles Davis -- Duke Ellington -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Gerry Mulligan -- Abdullah Ibn Buhaina -- Jelly Roll Morton -- King Oliver -- Billie Holiday -- Charles Mingus -- Nat "King" Cole -- Ornette Coleman -- Charlie Parker -- Modern Jazz Quartet -- Sonny Rollins -- Sidney Bechet -- Thelonious Monk -- Eubie Blake -- Sarah Vaughan -- Fats Waller -- Bix Beiderbecke -- Lester Young -- Dizzy Gillespie.…”
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Portraits and observations : the essays of Truman Capote.
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…New Orleans -- New York -- Brooklyn -- Hollywood -- Haiti -- To Europe -- Ischia -- Tangier -- A ride through Spain -- Fontana Vecchia -- Style: and the Japanese -- The muses are heard -- The Duke in his domain -- From Observations: Richard Avedon, John Huston, Charlie Chaplin, A gathering of swans, Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau and Andr⥠Gide, Mae West, Louis Armstrong, Humphrey Bogart, Ezra Pound, Somerset Maugham, Isak Dineson -- A house on the heights -- Lola -- Jane Bowles -- Extreme magic -- Ghosts in sunlight: The filming of In cold blood -- Greek paragraphs -- A voice from a cloud -- Cecil Beaton -- The white rose -- Self-portrait -- Preface to The dogs bark -- Elizabeth Taylor -- Music for chameleons -- Then it all came down -- Handcarved coffins -- A day's work -- Dazzle -- Hidden gardens -- Hello, stranger -- Derring-do -- Nocturnal turnings -- A beautiful child -- Mr. …”
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Gastro-modernism : food, literature, culture /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Jenkins -- Weight-loss regimes as improvisation in Louis Armstrong's and Duke Ellington's life writing / Vivian Halloran -- Kitchen talk : Marguerite Duras' experiments with culinary matter / Edwige Crucifix.…”
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The new territory : Ralph Ellison and the twenty-first century /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…: the French Revolution, King Louis Armstrong, and the futuristic jungleism of jazz / Steven C. …”
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Disintegrating the Musical : Black Performance and American Musical Film /
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Fascinating rhythm : reading jazz in American writing /
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The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938 /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Mendl -- "Hot Jazz" by Robert Goffin -- "From Swing That Music" by Louis Armstrong -- THEATER "The Negro in Drama" by Rollin Lynde Hartt -- "Reflections on O'Neill's Plays" by Paul Robeson -- "The Drama of Negro Life" by Montgomery Gregory -- "The Gift of Laughter" by Jessie Fauset -- "Same Old Blues" by Theophilus Lewis -- "The Drama of Negro Life" by Alain Locke -- "The Negro in the Field of Drama" by Rowena Woodham Jelliffe -- "Has the Negro a Place in the Theatre?" …”
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The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938 /
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