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Oral History Review Advance Access originally published online on August 28, 2009
Oral History Review 2009 36(2):267-269; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohp045
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Ask Me Now: Conversations in Jazz and Literature

Ted Buswick

The Boston Consulting Group, Boston, and Clark University, Worcester, MA

ASK ME NOW: CONVERSATIONS IN JAZZ AND LITERATURE. By Sascha Feinstein. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. 453 pp. Hardbound, $55.00; Softbound, $21.95.

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In 1996, Sascha Feinstein founded Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, "a journal of jazz-related literature," with the issues anchored by "lengthy discussions with people passionate and knowledgeable about both literature and jazz" (xi). Ask Me Now features twenty of those interviews.

Is it really oral history or is it a collection of interviews? That academic question is not worth arguing about at length here, but it can be said that in this collection Feinstein has captured the views of the passionate, fascinating, and talented individuals who populate this relatively small field. By doing . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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