Round 20: Tossup 3
Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. A 1960 essay laments that writers on this activity are not only “white middle-class Americans, but middle-brows as well.” The poem “Rose Solitude” by Jayne Cortez appears in Kevin Young’s anthology of poetry about this activity. This activity inspired poems like a “war memoir” by a writer who took a vow of silence in 1963. This activity “is my religion” in a poem by Ted Joans. The “best minds” in “Howl” float “across the tops of cities contemplating” this activity. The “oral message” poems in A Coney Island of the Mind were intended to go along with this activity, as were many poems in a style of free verse that mimics it by poets like Bob Kaufman and Amiri Baraka. As a verb, this activity precedes “June” before “We / Die soon.” For 10 points, Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “We Real Cool” draws on the syncopated rhythms of what musical style? ■END■
ANSWER: jazz music [accept jazz poetry; accept “Jazz is My Religion”; accept “O-Jazz-O War Memoir: Jazz, Don’t Listen To It At Your Own Risk”; accept “Jazz and the White Critic”; prompt on playing or listening to music, musical accompaniment, singing, or playing specific instruments until “style” is read by asking “in what style?”; reject “blues”] (Amiri Baraka wrote “Jazz and the White Critic.” Jazz poet Jayne Cortez was married to Ornette Coleman.)
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