Wyndham Lewis's ‘Very Bad Thing’: Jazz, Inter-War Culture, and The Apes of God

Abstract

The relationships between jazz and modernist writing have in recent years increasingly come to interest musico-literary scholars.Much of this interest has centred on the links between modernism, jazz, and the cultures of the Harlem Renaissance, whose music and art, in Patti Capel Swartz's words, extend 'far beyond its geographic boundaries as well as beyond the relational boundaries of time'. 1 As evidence of this trans-national and transtemporal influence, especially as it applies to Anglo-American cultural economies, such varied writers as T.

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