To Breathe into Another Voice A South African Anthology of Jazz Poetry |
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Author:
| 'aMokgathi, MoAfrika Billie, Ayanda Cummiskey, Gary d'Abdon, Raphael Davids, Sedica de Villiers, Phillippa Yaa Ferrus, Diana Forbis, John Gantsho, Vangi Gilder, Barry Godsell, Sarah Kaganof, Aryan Karolia, Zaheer Kgositsile, Keorapetse Kolski Horwitz, Allan Kuzwayo, LeratoRato Mabandu, Percy Makgeta, Xitha Makhele, Serame 'Icebound' Masango, Lebohang Nova Matjeni, Lati Mbungwana, Mthunzikazi A. Meintjies, Frank Mokwena, Steve Kwena Molebatsi, Natalia Moola, Azval Morris, Nolene Muthien, Bernedette Ndaliso, Mandy Poetician Ndlovo, Linda Ndlovu, Malika Newson, Derrick Nkosi, Siza Owen, Harry Payne, Selome 'Flow' Putuma, Koleka Roodt, Richard 'Quaz' Shaw, Lamelle Skeef, Eugene Smith Fick, Cornelia Vili, Xabiso wa Bofelo, Mphutlane Wessels, Roux Xaba, Makhosazana |
Editor:
| Jenkins, Myesha |
ISBN: | 978-1-928341-33-8 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2017 |
Publisher: | STE Publishers
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $20.99 |
Book Description:
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"'Writing about jazz is like dancing about architecture,' observed Thelonious Monk. It's possibly one of the few times he was wrong. Jazz poetry is almost as old as jazz itself. Poets such as Thulani Davis, Langston Hughes and our own Keorapetse Kgositsile and Mongane Wally Serote have long heard the patterns of the music and its makers and transformed and re-enacted those patterns in compelling words. Given South Africa's venerable jazz tradition, it's perhaps surprising it's...
More Description"'Writing about jazz is like dancing about architecture,' observed Thelonious Monk. It's possibly one of the few times he was wrong. Jazz poetry is almost as old as jazz itself. Poets such as Thulani Davis, Langston Hughes and our own Keorapetse Kgositsile and Mongane Wally Serote have long heard the patterns of the music and its makers and transformed and re-enacted those patterns in compelling words. Given South Africa's venerable jazz tradition, it's perhaps surprising it's taken so long for more fundis to be tapped for their responses to our kind of jazz. But it takes a special brew of ingredients for this kind of book to come together. You need an inspired guiding spirit, such as editor and jazzwoman-in-words Myesha Jenkins, and you need a vat in which the ingredients can mix and bubble. That's been provided by all those who've opened stages for the music to happen, and most recently by the Orbit under the direction of Aymeric Peguillan where Jazz & Poetry Nights brought words and music together, each a kind of yeast that helped the other to ferment and rise. You'll find everything here in To breathe into another voice: faithful and fantastical accounts of the jazz life and jazz people as well as reflections on the music as a metaphor for how we live - or, maybe more importantly, how we'd like to live. All you need to do now is open the covers, start reading, and dance joyously about the architecture." --Gwen Ansel