Muse-Echo Blues - Softcover

Cartier, Xam Wilson

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345377621 ISBN 13: 9780345377623

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1992

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"Brilliant...Xam Cartier's talent with language, and her gift for expressing anew the codes and ceremonies of black life, have a new and vibrant source of expression. Muse-Echo Blues is one hell of an improvisation."
- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Muse-Echo Blues wail the soul of American history, our highs and our lows through the formative years. Here is a tune that swings from the heart, starting with sense-surround sound of the 90's, and blacktracking back to the roar of the '20's, right to the edge of deadened Crash times.

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From Library Journal:

In this deeply emotional novel, Cartier presents an intricate account of the experiences of a young pianist named Kat, who has developed composer's block and is in need of revelation. Kat finds it in Kitty, a musician from the 1940s jazz period. Together they take us through the highs and lows of African American life--its music, culture, and blues--as they muse about the various problems in their lives. Cartier exhibits her trademark style: brisk sentences whose natural rhythm establishes a vibrant atmosphere that fittingly recalls the music that fills the book; a powerful mood sustained through each episode; and vivid descriptions of the characters, plot, and subplot of this excellent book. Readers will be appreciative of its originality and soul-stirring qualities.
- Gayle Leach, Graduate Lib. Sch., Wayne State Univ., Detroit
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From Publishers Weekly:

Cartier rises to the challenge of jazz poets with this homage to jazz and the African Americans who perform it, fusing classic American music and literary imagination. Author tour.
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