The shadow and the act : black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism / by Muyumba, Walton M.

Table of Contents: “…Movement I: Three ways of looking at a yardbird: Charlie Parker and the theorization of jazz improvisation in the work of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Le Roi Jones/Amiri Baraka --…”
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The shadow and the act : black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism / by Muyumba, Walton M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Vamping 'til ready -- Three ways of looking at a yardbird : Charlie Parker and the theorization of jazz improvisation in the work of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Black is, black ain't : violence, black masculinity, and the novel as democratic symbol -- Cutting session : Baldwin as prizefighting intellectual, Baldwin as improvising intellectual -- Improvising over the changes : improvisation as intellectual and aesthetic practice in the transitional poems of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Coda.…”
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