Shadow and the Act

Name: Shadow and the Act
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226554235
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Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism

Autor: Walton M. Muyumba

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: The University of Chicago Press

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Though often thought of as rivals, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka shared a range of...

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Autor

Walton M. Muyumba

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2009

Stránek

192

EAN

9780226554235

ISBN

0226554236

Enbook ID

04547673

Vydavatel

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnost

386

Rozměry

140 x 216 x 18

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Though often thought of as rivals, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka shared a range of interests, especially a passion for music. Jazz, in particular, was a decisive influence on their thinking, and, as "The Shadow and the Act" reveals, they drew on their insights into the creative process of improvisation to analyze race and politics in the civil rights era. In this inspired study Walton M. Muyumba situates these thinkers as a jazz trio, demonstrating how Ellison, Baraka, and Baldwin's individual works form a series of calls and responses with each other. Muyumba connects their writings on jazz to the philosophical tradition of pragmatism, particularly its support for more freedom for individuals and more democratic societies. He examines the way they responded to and elaborated on that lineage, showing how they significantly broadened it by addressing the African American experience, especially its aesthetics. Ultimately, Muyumba contends, the trio enacted pragmatist principles by effectively communicating the social and political benefits of African Americans fully entering society, thereby compelling America to move closer to its democratic ideals.

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