Yaffe: Reading Jazz in American Writing

[jbor at bigpond.com]

 From the review by Paul de Barros ('Jazz In American Literature 
Analyzed' _Down Beat_ 73.6, Chicago, Jun 2006, p. 85):

[...] In Fascinating Rhythm, Syracuse University English professor 
David Yaffe examines representations of jazz in a wide selection of 
American writings, from J.D. Salinger and Norman Mailer to Thomas 
Pynchon and Rafi Zabor. Though too literary to qualify as an answer to 
the great novelist and jazz commentator Ralph Ellison's call for a jazz 
criticism that "offers insights into the broader aspects of American 
social life," it is a step in the right direction. [...]

_Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing_
by David Yaffe, Princeton UP, 2005.

http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/8062.html

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