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November 28, 2004
Long Day O' Jazz
Taking a brief break from typing and reading and writing and studying. I just finished (for good, it's all printed and stapled with bibliography and title page) my Jazz and the Development of the Individual paper. I'm glad I waited. I had some stuff to add after reading Ralph Ellison's essay "Blues People" from his book Shadow and Act.
I love Ralph Ellison, and I wouldn't have discovered him at all if I hadn't taken this class. That's one of the great things about choosing to step outside my own department, I stumble across gems like Ellison. His writing just sings. It's beautiful, beautiful prose.
So that paper is done for good now. As is my process paper for my jury. I'm still deep in research for the Ma Rainey paper, though I have a pretty good outline for it now. There's just one more book I want to dip into before I start writing. (I've already got some good quotes from it, thanks to another book I'm using pretty extensively; I figured I should probably go straight to the source.) So the rest of my day will be a combination of "dipping" into Black Pearls by Daphne Duval Harrison and reading (and reading) my Jazz History notes for the "quiz" we have tomorrow. (I adore how the instructor refers to these hour-long, mind-bending ball-busters as "quizzes.")
Wheee.
Posted by sally at November 28, 2004 01:58 PM
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