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Jazz is a 1992 historical novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. The majority of the narrative takes place in Harlem during the 1920s, however, as the pasts of the various characters are explored, the narrative extends...


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The American Poetry Review
A Jazz Novel in Verse. (Mellen Poetry Press).(Poem)
01/01/2003: 324 words, approx. 1 pages
A Jazz Novel in Verse And Francis J. Muldoon-- huge, gloomy, nearsighted-- drumming at a strip joint so he could make maximum noise and work out maximum aggression. He said he hated humans but he grieved for the world, and fought with his wife...
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The Antioch Review
"The loud music of life": representations of jazz in the novels of Claude McKay.(Special Jazz Issue)
06/22/1999: 5,380 words, approx. 18 pages
Jazz music was a key element in Claude McKay's novels 'Home to Harlem,' 'Banjo.' 'Home to Harlem' equates jazz with sex, sensuality, animal passion and the primitive. 'Banjo' is set in the docks of Marseilles, France, where black vagabonds from all over the world...
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Quincy Jones receives jazz masters honor
10/4/2007: 546 words, approx. 2 pages
Quincy Jones was among six musicians named as National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters for 2008.The 2008 Jazz Masters were announced Tuesday night at a ceremony hosted by NEA Chairman Dana Gioia at the Jazz at Lincoln Center venue named after trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie,...
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Musicians stage jazz funeral for Batiste
5/12/2007: 259 words, approx. 1 pages
A white and black-clad band led a hearse carrying the body of clarinetist Alvin Batiste and hundreds of mourners attached themselves to the jazz funeral Saturday for one of the city's most revered musicians.In the morning, crowds lined up to pay homage to the jazz...
 


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Essay Grade: 88%
Sweetness Melts Away
620 words, approx. 2 pages
This essay is about relationships and what different people want out of them. Young people as opposed to older people. The book it is centered around is Toni Morrison's "Jazz."


 

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