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Within this short story by Dorothy Parker we are given a glimpse in the depressed state of a woman who has discovered that her value of good looks and good "sport" attitude have worn away with age. The woman that is left without those two parts,is broken and unable to recover a new independent identity. She has the sensation of being trapped and desperately seeks to escape it. Her female identity as a the big blonde is not one that she herself really wants to be, it is one that has been prescribed by her society. Her expected place is to be beautiful and sporty in order to find and keep a man and become a wife. When this formula doesn't pan out, and leaves her divorced, old and emotional she finds that she now fits into the negative defintion of the times. Parker's telling of the Big Blonde is a social critique for her time period. She is stepping back and really looking crtically at the roles of women in society as well as what is defined as successful. Hazel Morse starts out as fulfi]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:53:22 +0000 mod http://jazzagelitandmusic.pbwiki.com/The+Weary+Blues+Langston+Hughes email.hidden@example.com (Kim) Kim edited The Weary Blues Langston Hughes]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:22:53 +0000 mod http://jazzagelitandmusic.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Kim) Kim edited FrontPage Wikipedia
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned. New York: Oxford Univerity Press. 1998.
First World War
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Lewis, David Levering ed. The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader. New York: Penguin Group. 1994.
Meade, Marion ed. The Portable Dorothy Parker. New York: Penguin Books. 2006.
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The Literature and its Music
authors' own references to themusic of the time their period. I will also analyze the added meaningof thesongs referenced in many of the texts written durnig these times and how theyserve to furtherexpoundmajor themes.Music themes that came out of the eras.Music is a reflection of the social norms and what is important themes andissues such as love, power and overall mood. power, successand emotions. When authors infuse their works with musical reference references, it is for a reason. It also helps to tie their work to the time period that they are a part of. The flow and importance of naming songs and styles of music popular during]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:12:26 +0000 mod http://jazzagelitandmusic.pbwiki.com/The+Caucasian+Storms+Harlem+Rudolph+Fisher email.hidden@example.com (Kim) Kim edited The Caucasian Storms Harlem Rudolph Fisher Navigation
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I will only be able to cover a few of the authors from these two time periods. Some of the more notable connections were present in the works of the following authors:
F.F Scott Fitzgerald Dorothy FitzgeraldDorothy Parker
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]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:00:53 +0000 mod http://jazzagelitandmusic.pbwiki.com/The+Weary+Blues+Langston+Hughes email.hidden@example.com (Kim) Kim edited The Weary Blues Langston Hughes Taking a closer look at the title, we see that there are direct ties to the song "Weary Blues" byLouis Armstrong and his Hot SevenIf you listen to this song, you will hear the song as bright in tone, the song isn't depressing as the title may suggest. But at the same time you can hear a dialogue that occurs between the players and their instruments. This was history in the makign especailly when we consider the shadow that his work casts on the music of today. Langston Hughes made no mistake when he recognized the true value of what Louis Armstrong and his jazz contemporaries were working on during the Harlem Renaissance. The arts and literature of the Harlem Renaissance are what helped to give it the power and impact that it did. It is a strong part of American history and came to fruition during the 1920-1930's.
This is a video rendition of Langston Hughes' poem, "The Weary Blues" set to music and with video from the times.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned. New York: Oxford Univerity Press. 1998.
Lewis, David Levering ed. The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader. New York: Penguin Group. 1994.
Meade, Marion ed. The Portable Dorothy Parker. New York: Penguin Books. 2006.
The History of Jazz Before 1930; The Red Hot Jazz Archive
http://redhotjazz.com/
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class order that is and were not interested in working to earn money but are were drawn to the art of doing nothing but what submits to the senses and impulses of a life of leisure. Theyspend a great deal of time at the shows, going to social dances and throwing extravagant parties and the musical references appeal to that aspect of their personalities.The frivoloty of how they lead their lives is evident by their overwhelming attention to entertainment and music. They There is very little in the way of serious issues that affect them until much later in the novel when they are forced to finally face reality. Money and the realness of growing old gives them a big wake-up call though they are still never too far from where they started. Fitzgerald interweaves this novel with particular songs in order to further express the idealism of Anthony and Gloria as golden children of the ]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:47:25 +0000 mod http://jazzagelitandmusic.pbwiki.com/The+Beautiful+and+Damned%3B+Fitzgerald email.hidden@example.com (Kim) Kim edited The Beautiful and Damned; Fitzgerald pg. 81 "He's a Rag Picker" is a song from 1914 by Irving Berlinthat is mentioned in the novel.The lyrics to this particular song serve as an ode to the style of paino playing known as Rag time. This is is a distinct mark of the era from which Fitzgerald is writing about. This was a very popular and catchy tune and the sheet music for this song is still heavily coveted to this day. This song is refererenced when Muriel and Maury are dancing with one another. Muriel quietly sings the song while holding onto Maury. She is described in this scene as very much a seductress. She is entranced and holding onto the nape of Maury's neck with the zealousness of a vampire preparing to bite. This connotation is telling because of the stereotypical roles of women during the twenties. Fitzgerald defines her personality when he writes, "She was got up to the best of her ability as a siren, more popularly a "vamp"--a picker up and thrower away of men, an unscrupulous and fundamentally unmoved toyer wi]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:43:04 +0000 mod