Making Connections

1. Compare and contrast Langston Hughes’s “Jazzonia” (p. 1197) and Jayne Cortez’s “Jazz Fan Looks Back” (p. 1207). What do they have in common? What separates them? Both are considered jazz poems; do you agree? Explain.

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   Making Connections: - Compare and contrast Langston Hughes’s “Jazzonia” (p. 1197) and Jayne Cortez’s “Jazz Fan Looks Back” (p. 1207). What do they have in common? What separates them? Both are considered jazz poems; do you agree? Explain.
2. Imagine the scene at the poetry reading set to jazz that Whitney Balliett describes in “Daddy-O” (p. 1202). How might it be similar to the scene Donald Barthelme sets in “The King of Jazz” (p. 1204)? What seems genuine in each? What might be pretentious?

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   Making Connections: - Imagine the scene at the poetry reading set to jazz that Whitney Balliett describes in “Daddy-O” (p. 1202). How might it be similar to the scene Donald Barthelme sets in “The King of Jazz” (p. 1204)? What seems genuine in each? What might be pretentious?
3. The poet Robert Pinsky, quoted in Michael Segall’s The Devil’s Horn (p. 1209), said in an interview, “In jazz, as in poetry, there’s always the play between what’s regular and what’s wild.” What might Robert O’Meally (p. 1194) consider to be the “play between what’s regular and what’s wild” in both poetry and jazz?

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   Making Connections: - The poet Robert Pinsky, quoted in Michael Segall’s The Devil’s Horn (p. 1209), said in an interview, “In jazz, as in poetry, there’s always the play between what’s regular and what’s wild.” What might Robert O’Meally (p. 1194) consider to be the “play between what’s regular and what’s wild” in both poetry and jazz?
4. Looking at the selection from the prologue of Invisible Man (p. 1201), try to identify some of the qualities that caused Gerald Early (p. 1189) to consider it the quintessential “‘jazz’ novel” (par. 6).

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   Making Connections: - Looking at the selection from the prologue of Invisible Man (p. 1201), try to identify some of the qualities that caused Gerald Early (p. 1189) to consider it the quintessential “‘jazz’ novel” (par. 6).
5. Compare and contrast William Henry Johnson’s Jitterbuggers VI (p. 1200) to Stuart Davis’s Swing Landscape (p. 1199). How do they reflect the changes in jazz music as it moved from the familiar tunes of the American songbook to the abstractions of bebop and hard bop?

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   Making Connections: - Compare and contrast William Henry Johnson’s Jitterbuggers VI (p. 1200) to Stuart Davis’s Swing Landscape (p. 1199). How do they reflect the changes in jazz music as it moved from the familiar tunes of the American songbook to the abstractions of bebop and hard bop?