Questions

1. In paragraph 7 of the excerpt from Gerald Early’s Jazz and the African American Literary Tradition (p. 1189), Early mentions that the symbolic aspect of this excerpt (the black man eating white ice cream with red syrup on it) as well as the music he’s listening to (“What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?”) emphasizes the difficult process of making art, especially for a black man. How does the anecdote about the prizefighter and the yokel (par. 2) expand on that theme?

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   Questions: - In paragraph 7 of the excerpt from Gerald Early’s Jazz and the African American Literary Tradition (p. 1189), Early mentions that the symbolic aspect of this excerpt (the black man eating white ice cream with red syrup on it) as well as the music he’s listening to (“What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?”) emphasizes the difficult process of making art, especially for a black man. How does the anecdote about the prizefighter and the yokel (par. 2) expand on that theme?
2. What aspects of the three elements of jazz—rhythm, improvisation, call and response—that Robert O’Meally (p. 1194) identifies are present in Ellison’s excerpt?

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   Questions: - What aspects of the three elements of jazz—rhythm, improvisation, call and response—that Robert O’Meally (p. 1194) identifies are present in Ellison’s excerpt?
3. What does the narrator of Invisible Man say about what we might call negative space? How does it connect to what jazz trumpeter Miles Davis once said, “Don’t play what’s there; play what’s not there”?

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   Questions: - What does the narrator of Invisible Man say about what we might call negative space? How does it connect to what jazz trumpeter Miles Davis once said, “Don’t play what’s there; play what’s not there”?