Sitting in : selected writings on jazz, blues, and related topics / Hayden Carruth.
| Author/creator |
Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008 |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | Expanded edition. |
| Publication Info | Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1993. |
| Description | xiii, 223 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | The guy downstairs -- A chaconnade for everyone named Rebecca -- Freedom and discipline -- Academicism -- Who cares, long as it's B-flat -- Influences: the formal idea of jazz -- Joe Turner -- Song about Earl Hines -- With respect to the infuriating pervasiveness of optimism -- A possibly momentary declaration in favor of William Butler Yeats and Charles Ellsworth Russell -- Paragraph -- Got those forever inadequate blues -- The intentional alligator -- Personality of genius -- Tom McGrath is harvesting the snow -- Authenticity in the age of massive, multiplying error -- Michigan water: a few riffs before dawn -- Three paragraphs -- The defeated generation -- The cowshed blues -- The main thing about improvisation -- The blues scale -- Ben Webster -- The time of falling apart -- The blues as poetry -- In that session -- James Wright's collected prose -- Mystery and expressiveness -- An expatiation on the combining of weathers at thirty-seventh and Indiana where the southern more or less crosses the dog -- Instances -- Letter to Maxine Sullivan -- Smith -- To all human consciousness the clandestine is basal -- Duncan's dream -- Coda -- Meditation in the presence of "Ostrich walk" -- What does "organic" mean? -- Good old wagon -- Ben Webster -- Anthems -- The spun-off independent dead-end ten-star blast -- Homage to John Lyly and Frankie Newton -- What a wonder among the instruments is the walloping tramboone -- Eleven memoranda on the culture of jazz. |
| Abstract | This collection of essays and poems about the influence of jazz on writing and culture in this country, an expanded edition of the 1986 publication, is a rewarding volume for all those entranced by jazz. The author brings his considerable poetic and literary sensibilities to bear on a topic very near to his heart: "Those who are devoted primarily to jazz, to poetry, to all the arts, are also those who contribute more intelligently than others to our practical and moral, political and social, advancement." |
| Local note | Little-283709 |
| LCCN | 93001813 |
| ISBN | 087745423X (pbk. : acid-free paper) : |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML3556 .C37 1993 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |