Groove, bang and jive around

Cannon, Steve, 1935-2019 author.

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Despite decades of notoriety as one of the "filthiest books in the world," Steve Cannon's first and only piece of longform fiction, Groove, Bang and Jive Around, has hardly been read since first being published in 1969. In the words of American poet Ishmael Reed, Cannon's debut work inspired a generation by breaking with staid literary modernism. Its publication "signaled a resurfacing of the irreverent, underground trickster tradition of Black o...

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ISBN:

9781953691194
1953691196

Edition:

Trade paperback

Description:

242 pages ; 18 cm

Notes:

Originally published by Ophelia Press, 1969; revised for Olympia Press, 1971

Contents:

Editor's note
Foreword / Darius H. James
The New Orleans stomp. The Gumbo House ; The house of blue lights ; Front game: Beneath the house ; Big Bertha: Teaching the kids a lesson ; Home ; Mom's offspring ; Flattop's baby doll
Da da voo doo hoo doo: Sur real lists II. Marie's secret ceremony ; Pas de hoo doo ; How Long blew Annette's mother too ; Congo dun reel
Jumbo jet inverted diversions, or, How two unknowns beat the bones. Annette Duffs: But, oh, what a nutty trip
Oo-bla-dee/Oo-bla-da. Papa Doc John's bulldogs' bone ; So it goes: Situation normal, all fucked up ; Blowout/Showout and Afterfacts' bit!! ; Bla da: The princess's pad
Afterword / Tracie Morris

Control Number:

3303374

Other Authors:

James, Darius, writer of foreword
Morris, Tracie, writer of afterword

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