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Drifting on a Read: Jazz As a Model for Writing (SUNY Series in American Labor History) (SUNY series, INTERRUPTIONS: Border Testimony(ies) and Critical Discourse/s) - Softcover
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For almost a century, writers such as Ralph Ellison, Michael Ondaatje, and Ishmael Reed have expressed an affinity for jazz, hearing the music as a model for writing. Michael Jarrett examines their work and the work of others who have brought jazz into language, pushing "interpretation" into the realm of "invention."
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Michael Jarrett is Associate Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University, York Campus. He is the author of Sound Tracks: A Musical ABC: Volumes 1–3.
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