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After the high school fascination with rock and some jazz, Radano became interested in experimental "new" music and avant-garde jazz when he went off to Rowan College in 1974, where he studied the intersections of jazz and art music and visited Manhattan often to work with many in-house ensembles that were blurring the lines between types of music...
Ultimately, Radano chose to study Anthony Braxton's career, not to present another jazz biography but to employ his life and work as a lens for observing the confusion and fragmentation of post-World War II American work, an endeavor that Radano is still best known for, Shelemay says...
...Anthony Braxton...was a black politician, who was challenging everything, including the idea of racial construction and music as such," says Radano, explaining his interest in the jazz legend. "He is an autodidact.... But he is a product of the very rich cultural and intellectual setting of Chicago's south side. He is one of the leading thinkers and artists in the post-1960s jazz/'art music' intersection...
After finishing her sixth novel, Jazz, published in 1992, Toni Morrison began casting about for the subject of her next book. Constant reading, a habit and passion she developed as a little girl, eventually led her to an obscure chapter in 19th century U.S. history, shortly after the Civil War: the westward emigration of former slaves into the sparsely settled territories of Oklahoma and beyond. Some found the promise of a new life in wide-open spaces, touted in numerous newspaper advertisements in the 1870s, irresistible, and a challenge besides. Morrison was struck by a caveat that often appeared...
...trilogy that began with Beloved (1987). That haunting tale of a mother, an escaping slave, who loved her daughter so fiercely that she killed her rather than allowing her to be taken back into bondage by her pursuers won the Pulitzer Prize. It was followed in 1992 by Jazz, in which the love of a man for a younger woman turns violent in the Harlem of the 1920s. The form of love anatomized in Paradise is a hunger for security, the desire to create perfection in an imperfect world...