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The drum is a wild woman : jazz and gender in African diaspora literature / Patricia G. Lespinasse

Lespinasse, Patricia G. [Verfasser]

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource (viii, 153 pages).

Mississippi scholarship online

Also issued in print: 2022

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-4968-3607-6 ; 978-1-49-683603-8

LS 48050 LR 56617 LR 56618

 

Schwarze Frau, Motiv  Jazz, Motiv  Literatur 

 

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In 1957, Duke Ellington released the influential album A Drum Is a Woman. This musical allegory revealed the implicit truth about the role of women in jazz discourse - jilted by the musician and replaced by the drum. Further, the album's cover displays an image of a woman sitting atop a drum, depicting the way in which the drum literally obscures the female body, turning the subject into an object. This objectification of women leads to a critical reading of the role of women in jazz music: If the drum can take the place of a woman, then a woman can also take the place of a drum. This book challenges that image but also defines a counter-tradition within women's writing that involves the reinvention and reclamation of a modern jazz discourse.