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White Man Tells the Blues: The Power of Music and Narrative in Patrick Neate’s Twelve Bar Blues
Ist Teil von
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2006-01, Vol.54 (1), p.33-49
Ort / Verlag
De Gruyter
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Patrick Neate’s 2001 novel Twelve Bar Blues is in many ways an intriguing text: Written by a white male English author, the novel utilizes the blues form in order to stage the historical impact of the ‘Black Atlantic’ (Gilroy) on late-20th-century affairs. Steeped in the jazz mythology of New Orleans, it nevertheless manages to transcend these myths by paying close attention to the pragmatic (and historical) contexts in which music and narrative exist as cultural practices. In view of the thematic scope of the present volume, the article addresses the three dimensions of its title (“White Man,” “The Blues,” and “The Power of Music and Narrative”) in order to answer the following questions: What exactly is the cultural validity ascribed to blues and early jazz in the world of the novel, and in what way is the mode of storytelling employed in the novel implicated in these assumptions?