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Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism by Rob Wallace is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism about?
Improvisation, despite its almost ubiquitous presence in many art forms, is notoriously misunderstood and mysterious. Although earlier strands of American philosophy and art emphasized what might be called improvisational practices, it was during the modernist period that improvisational practice and theory began to make a significant impact on art and culture, specifically via the African American musical forms of jazz and blues. This musical development held important consequences for the larger artistic, cultural, and political life of America as a wholeGcAand, eventually, the world. The historical convergence of jazz and philosophical currents like pragmatism in American culture provides the framework for WallaceOCOs discussion of improvisation in literary modernism. Focusing on poets ranging from Gertrude Stein to Langston Hughes, WallaceOCOs work provides a fresh perspective on the complex circuits of modernist culture. Improvisation and The Making of American Literary Modernism will be of interest to scholars of poetry, music, American and modernist studies, and race and ethnic studies.
Who reads Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Rob Wallace
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781441169464
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Music, History