Jazz Internationalism

John Lowney is a professor of English at St. John's University. He is the author of The American Avant-Garde Tradition: William Carlos Williams, Postmodern Poetry, and the Politics of Cultural Memory and History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968.

"Recommended."--Choice  "Lowney is at his best when he turns his attention to the specific forms of jazz and its literatures. He is a careful close reader with an expert eye for minute technical correspondence between literary and musical forms." --African American Review"Jazz Internationalism is thought provoking. . . certain to stimulate the intellectual interests of a wide array of scholars of black radicalism, Afro-modernism, and jazz." --The Journal of African American History

• CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "Harlem Jazzing": Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, and Jazz Internationalism2. "Black Man's Verse": The Black Chicago Renaissance and the Popular Front Jazz Poetics of Frank Marshall Davis3. "Do You Sing for a Living?": Ann Petry, The Street, and the Gender Politics of World War II Jazz4. "Cultural Exchange": Cold War Jazz and the Political Aesthetics of Langston Hughes's Long Poems5. "A Silent Beat in Between the Drums": Bebop, Post-Bop, and the Black Beat Poetics of Bob KaufmanConclusion. "A New Kind of Music": Paule Marshall, The Fisher King, and the Dissonance of DiasporaNotesWorks CitedIndex