Summary: This is a 1.5-page essay on Jazz Introduction Ralph Ellison once described American culture as "jazz-shaped." He meant that African-Americans have provided the essence of the nation's cultural style: "the sudden turns, the shocks, the swift changes of pace (all jazz-shaped) that serv...

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Writer Ralph Ellison is one who began his adult career as a trumpet player, but then switched to writing as his primary passion; although his art still perseveres as an embodiment of musical homage. ... Invisibility, let me explain, gives one a slightly different sense of time, you're never quite on the beat (Ellison 7-8). ...

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"Furthermore, the existence of the body of African American literature from the Renaissance inspired writers such as Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright to pursue literary careers in the late 1930s and the 1940s. ...

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