Living with Music
By Ralph Ellison
Edited by Robert O’Meally
By Ralph Ellison
Edited by Robert O’Meally
Part of Modern Library Classics
Category: Music | Classic Nonfiction
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$18.00
May 14, 2002 | ISBN 9780375760235
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Praise
“No Ellison fan or jazz aficionado should ignore this book.” —Publishers Weekly
“Most of us just listen to it, but Ellison truly inhabited jazz. Lovingly collected here for the first time are the crème de la crème of his music pieces. . . . Prose rarely resonates like this.” —Library Journal
“The nonfiction pieces repackaged here include considerations of blues, gospel, and flamenco. . . . As the slips of fiction and correspondence gathered here testify, all Ellison writing is jazz writing.” —Entertainment Weekly
“[Ellison] may have stopped playing jazz, but he never stopped celebrating it throughout his long literary career.” —The Washington Post
“Whether he is writing a homage to Ellington on his seventieth birthday, analyzing how the blues infuses Richard Wright’s autobiography or reviewing recordings of Mahalia Jackson, Ellison is insightful while keeping the focus on what role the music plays in American culture.” —The New York Times Book Review
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