3. The Literary Ellington

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: “I Thought I Heard”: The Origins of Jazz and the Ends of Jazz Writing 1
4. 1. Louis Armstrong and the Syntax of Scat 27
5. 2. Toward a Poetics of Transcription: James Weldon Johnson’s Prefaces 57
6. 3. The Literary Ellington 86
7. 4. The Race for Space: Sun Ra’s Poetry 120
8. 5. Zoning Mary Lou Williams Zoning 154
9. 6. Let’s Call This: Henry Threadgill and the Micropoetics of the Song Title 181
10. 7. Notes on Poetics Regarding Mackey’s Song 197
11. 8. Come Out 221
12. Afterword: Hearing across Media 253
13. Notes 269
14. Acknowledgments 311
15. Index 317