Jazz

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978-0-452-26965-1
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Jazz is a 1992 historical novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. The majority of the narrative takes place in Harlem during the 1920s; however, as the pasts of the various characters are explored, the narrative extends back to the mid-19th-century American South. The novel forms the second part of Morrison's Dantesque trilogy on African-American history, beginning with Beloved (1987) and ending with Paradise (1997).

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Let's talk floating lyrics; the snippets that get repeated in one blues or jazz or folk song after another for generations, that nobody and everybody can lay claim to. Often violent, often repetitive (cf Sinners).

Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.

Snippets that move from field to town to city without changing except in the context and the smoothness of delivery. Old men continuing to sing about love they (or their grandfathers) lost decades ago as if it happened now.

Let's talk jazz. The one truly American music. The one that reinvents itself by design, repeats themes until they become new.

Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.