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May.29.2010 Order Within The Maelstrom Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, by Richard Fariña Buddhist theory, I’ve heard, proclaims that the human nervous system’s prime function is to find (create, perhaps) order within chaos. Fariña’s book, as a prototype for what is popularly known as postmodern literature, seems to toy...	May.03.2010 Langston Hughes, A Reminder to be True to Your Art I had the privilege recently of helping celebrate the works of Langston Hughes at an annual National Poetry Month event organized by one of Santa Barbara’s exceptional poets and teachers, Sojourner Kincaid Rolle. Rolle had asked me to talk about what lessons Hughes’ lifelong work might hold for...
Apr.08.2010 LIKE JAZZ It begins with a trembling in your heart. Vibrations travel. Intense sparks like lights Photographed at high speed- Elongated strings of color. Move through your arms and down your fingers Exploding on strings, or keys; skins or brass. Mind, soul, and body Move to a place where time...	Mar.16.2010 The Furious Passage of Nina Simone Many modern audiences first became familiar with the name Nina Simone in 2005 after Canadian singer Michael Buble' recorded her 1965 hit song, "Feeling Good," and which finalists on the popular American Idol television show sang before world audiences in 2007. However, long before Buble'...
Mar.12.2010 5 Notable Women of the Past and Present Part 1: Abbey Lincoln The current celebration of what is known as Women's History Month got its start in Europe on March 8, 1911, as a single day devoted to highlighting the political struggles of women, and then grew to a week-long event celebrated in the United States in 1978, finally expanding by way of a U.S...	Jan.28.2010 What if we have only one story? I struggle with the belief, like many writers, that I have only one story to tell. It’s partly why it took twelve years to write my first novel; if I only have one story to tell, I thought I’d best tell it right. I remember a lecture by writer Max Steele who offered the following closed-eye...
Jan.07.2010 Amy Winehouse before the beehive Amy Winehouse; TAKE THE BOX. This was before the beehive hair, before the alcohol, before the drugs. Everything Amy is here on the roguenovelist You Tube site. Enjoy. Subscribe to roguenovelist You Tube and put it in your favorites. Roguenovelist takes you back to the 60's music and performers. You...	Jan.07.2010 My Work is Music A song entitled "Moving Song" was the first thing I wrote. It's one of the 41 songs in the JOAN CARTWRIGHT SONG BOOK. I am the first woman in the world to publish a Jazz and Blues song book. These songs are a part of my first book IN PURSUIT OF A MELODY, a compilation of memoirs of my ...
Jan.04.2010 The Jazz Kitchen Oil pop, pop, popping, mushrooms, carrots, snap peas, shrimp big as butterflies, spicy chicken, red chilies’ flung in a huge steel pan, dancing together like a hot cha, cha, cha. That symphony of image and scent, going down on a Saturday Texas night. Like jazz with maracas thrown in. No,...	Dec.28.2009 Using Ella Fitzgerald to complicate and test theories of African-American music: an essay This paper tests theories of African-American music's characteristics by applying them to music commonly identified as African-American. The examples are by jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. I use this music as a litmus test for how various theories do or do not verify their music as African-American...

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