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Ellison's abiding fascination with jazz arises partly from his awareness of how its polyrhythms and extended harmonies constitute an intricate musical vocabulary and grammar that cannot be accurately represented by standard notational systems of Western music. Although music and composing fiction are closely interwoven for Ellison, he is not, as some commentators contend, stressing the melodic quality of his writing, or its suitability as song lyrics. This is surprising if we accept Miles Davis s claim that the history of jazz is summed up in four words-"Louis Armstrong Charlie Parker," both of whom are evaluated critically rather than hagiographically in Shadow and Act. Yet insufficient scholarly attention has been devoted to the verbal texture of Invisible Man's prologue and epilogue, and the pivotal position jazz musician Louis Armstrong plays in them. Ellison's essays say much about the connections between artistic expression in literature and jazz, how they affect each other, what common techniques they draw upon, what issues are central to both, and what functions they serve. As a critic Ellison had direct experience of this music's formative years, and his discerning and prescient essays collected in Shadow and Act are among the first to provide a thoroughgoing cultural analysis of the origins and aesthetics of jazz. ONE OF THE MOST TRENCHANT strands of recent Ralph Ellison scholarship considers the writers lifelong interest in jazz and how it shapes his unique imaginative vision in his novel Invisible Man. That's what you hear vaguely in Louis's music. And you slip into the breaks and look around. Instead of the swift and imperceptible flowing of time, you are aware of its nodes, where time stands still or from which it leaps ahead. Sometimes you're ahead and sometimes behind. Invisibility, let me explain, gives one a slightly different sense of time, you're never quite on the beat.
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