Five Days of Bleeding
University of Alabama Press, 1995
Paper: 978-1-57366-003-7
Library of Congress Classification PS3553.R798F58 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
Paper: 978-1-57366-003-7
Library of Congress Classification PS3553.R798F58 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Five Days of Bleeding is the black experience in sound, a fight to dance and celebrate cultural roots, and the struggle of a dark homeless woman, Zu-Zu Girl, to have voice in White America.
Taunted by the violent character "Chops," Zu-Zu sings to keep her spirit alive in New York City's Central Park. Zu-Zu and the novel's narrator have a relationship which is transformed into a stormy, dreamlike urban affair. Their oppressive situation is depicted through multiple collages of sound and image, a funky mix of original and sampled cuts, both literary and musical.
The social chaos around them is remixed in a text consisting of street beats, classic breaks, and fresh-cool cadences. Bleeding proves that the loudest noises of moral panic can be gunshots, to be sure, but they can also be the very human sound of the music of hope and despair.
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