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| Title: | The Paradox of Jazz. "Drumming on Water" by Geoff Page. [review] |
| Authors: | Gilbey, David |
| Keywords: | Australian
Book Reviews
Publishing
poetry
David Gilbey
murder mystery
Emily Potter
Chloe Hooper
A Child's Book of True Crime
Association for the Study of Australian Literature
ASAL
Charles Harpur
Kenneth Slessor
Dorothy Porter
Alan Wearne
World War II
World ar Two
World War 2
New Guineau
Australian Army
Manpower
Zeitgeist
Bessie Smith
Billie Holiday
Sydney Trocadero
Benny Goodman
Showboat
art
historiography
Patrick White |
| Issue Date: | Sep-2003 |
| Publisher: | Australian Book Review |
| Citation: | Gilbey, David 2003. The Paradox of Jazz. Review of "Drumming on Water" by Geoff Page. 'Australian Book Review', No 254, September, 56. |
| Series/Report no.: | No 254 |
| Abstract: | Like a series of attenuated conversation poems, "Drumming on Water" is a narrative in forty-five riffs. The individual poems are like extended song lyrics — spoken jazz: ‘ad lib, of course / but also well thought out.’ The words are notes to sound and repeat, scoring the brief and unmemorable career of a jazz drummer with the Lizzie Rivers’ All-Girl Band of 1938 and regular gigs on Sydney Harbour ferries, until the mysterious death of its lead singer who disappears overboard — the fulcrum of the poem. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2328/588 |
| ISSN: | 0155-2864 |
| Appears in Collections: | No 254 - September, 2003
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