1. THE BOP BEAT
... "-all at the same time.... Invisibility, let me explain, gives one a slightly different sense of time, you're never quite on the beat (Ellison 7-8). Jazz is an offspring of a long oral tradition of African music. But, it does not remain parochial; rather, the "act of visualizing jazz" makes it possible for all peoples and artists to grab a portion of its offerings, including ... "poets trying to break apart the language to imitate sound" (Feinstein xx). The importance of theGarner 4 oral tradition in poet Allen Ginsberg's mind leads him to emphasize the importance of sound; if a work can...
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