1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000089670203316

Autore

HOROWITZ, Paul

Titolo

Laboratory manual for the art of electronics / Paul Horowitz, Ian Robinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge Univesity Press, copyr.1981

ISBN

0-521-24265-7

Descrizione fisica

1 v. ; 26 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

ROBINSON, Ian

Disciplina

621.381

Collocazione

621.381 HOR

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Paginazione varia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460296503321

Autore

Wallace Rob

Titolo

Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2010

ISBN

1-282-94789-3

9786612947896

1-4411-2289-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

810.9112

Soggetti

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism

American poetry - History and criticism - 20th century - United States

Modernism (Literature)

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: WRITING IMPROVISATION INTO MODERNISM; CHAPTER 1 EZRA POUND: MUSIC, HISTORY, TIME; CHAPTER 2 LANGSTON HUGHES: "HOW TO TAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE AND MAKE IT DANCE"; CHAPTER 3 LISTENING TO GERTRUDE STEIN'S SAXOPHONE; CHAPTER 4 BANJOS, BLACKBIRDS, AND BLUE GUITARS: THE SOUNDWORLD OF WALLACE STEVENS; CONCLUSION; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Improvisation, despite its almost ubiquitous presence in many art forms, is notoriously misunderstood and mysterious. Although earlier strands of American philosophy and art emphasized what might be called improvisational practices, it was during the modernist period that improvisational practice and theory began to make a significant impact on art and culture, specifically via the African American musical forms of jazz and blues. This musical development held important



consequences for the larger artistic, cultural, and political life of America as a wholeGÇöand, eventually, the world. The hi