Jazz And American Culture
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Jazz In American Culture
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Author : Peter Townsend
language : en
Publisher: International Congress and Sym
Release Date : 2000
Jazz In American Culture written by Peter Townsend and has been published by International Congress and Sym this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Music categories.
Jazz in American Culture offers an informed and entertaining introduction to jazz - one of the great musical cultures of the world. The book looks at jazz both as a music and as a culture within the wider American context, and aims to open up the subject to the non-specialist. It examines thesocial and institutional structures that have underpinned the music at particular stages in its history, from the 1930s through to the present, and considers its place as a component of the entertainment industry.Among the musicians introduced are Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday and Lester Young. Peter Townsend's distinctive approach to his subject includes a consideration of representations of jazz in other art forms, including films and literary texts, such asthe fiction of Ralph Ellison, Jack Kerouac and Toni Morrison, and the poetry of Langston Hughes. He also introduces the work of jazz-influenced painters such as Stuart Davis and Jackson Pollock, and discusses the significance of photography in jazz.The book also explores the influence of jazz onother art forms, the "mythology" of jazz, its place in consumer culture and its relation to a number of issues, such as ethnicity and individualism, that have affected American art and society. This book will be of lasting interest to anyone with a passion for jazz music.
The Jazz Republic
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Author : Jonathan O. Wipplinger
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017-04-14
The Jazz Republic written by Jonathan O. Wipplinger and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-14 with History categories.
Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century
The Jazz Cadence Of American Culture
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Author : Robert G. O'Meally
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1998
The Jazz Cadence Of American Culture written by Robert G. O'Meally and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
"The Jazz Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of eloquent statements about the influence of this art form on our world ... a comprehensive collection of [35] essays, speeches and interviews about the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life."--Back cover.
Swingin The Dream
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Author : Lewis A. Erenberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1999-09-08
Swingin The Dream written by Lewis A. Erenberg and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-08 with Music categories.
During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create large-scale dreams for the Depression generation, capturing the imagination of America's young people, music critics, and the music business. Swingin' the Dream explores that world, looking at the racial mixing-up and musical swinging-out that shook the nation and has kept people dancing ever since. "Swingin' the Dream is an intelligent, provocative study of the big band era, chiefly during its golden hours in the 1930s; not merely does Lewis A. Erenberg give the music its full due, but he places it in a larger context and makes, for the most part, a plausible case for its importance."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "An absorbing read for fans and an insightful view of the impact of an important homegrown art form."—Publishers Weekly "[A] fascinating celebration of the decade or so in which American popular music basked in the sunlight of a seemingly endless high noon."—Tony Russell, Times Literary Supplement
Hotter Than That
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Author : Krin Gabbard
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2015-12-29
Hotter Than That written by Krin Gabbard and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-29 with Music categories.
A swinging cultural history of the instrument that in many ways defined a century The twentieth century was barely under way when the grandson of a slave picked up a trumpet and transformed American culture. Before that moment, the trumpet had been a regimental staple in marching bands, a ceremonial accessory for royalty, and an occasional diva at the symphony. Because it could make more noise than just about anything, the trumpet had been much more declarative than musical for most of its history. Around 1900, however, Buddy Bolden made the trumpet declare in brand-new ways. He may even have invented jazz, or something very much like it. And as an African American, he found a vital new way to assert himself as a man. Hotter Than That is a cultural history of the trumpet from its origins in ancient Egypt to its role in royal courts and on battlefields, and ultimately to its stunning appropriation by great jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Wynton Marsalis. The book also looks at how trumpets have been manufactured over the centuries and at the price that artists have paid for devoting their bodies and souls to this most demanding of instruments. In the course of tracing the trumpet's evolution both as an instrument and as the primary vehicle for jazz in America, Krin Gabbard also meditates on its importance for black male sexuality and its continuing reappropriation by white culture.
Jazz Rock And Rebels
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Author : Uta G. Poiger
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-03-03
Jazz Rock And Rebels written by Uta G. Poiger and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-03 with Art categories.
"This significant contribution to German history pioneers a conceptually sophisticated approach to German-German relations. Poiger has much to say about the construction of both gender norms and masculine and feminine identities, and she has valuable insights into the role that notions of race played in defining and reformulating those identities and prescriptive behaviors in the German context. The book will become a 'must read' for German historians."—Heide Fehrenbach, author of Cinema in Democratizing Germany "Poiger breaks new ground in this history of the postwar Germanies. The book will serve as a model for all future studies of comparative German-German history."—Robert G. Moeller, author of Protecting Motherhood "Jazz, Rock, and Rebels exemplifies the exciting work currently emerging out of transnational analyses. [A] well-written and well-argued study."—Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans
Spirits Rejoice
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Author : Jason C. Bivins
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-01
Spirits Rejoice written by Jason C. Bivins and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with Music categories.
In Spirits Rejoice! Jason Bivins explores the relationship between American religion and American music, and the places where religion and jazz have overlapped. Much writing about jazz tends toward glorified discographies or impressionistic descriptions of the actual sounds. Rather than providing a history, or series of biographical entries, Spirits Rejoice! takes to heart a central characteristic of jazz itself and improvises, generating a collection of themes, pursuits, reoccurring foci, and interpretations. Bivins riffs on interviews, liner notes, journals, audience reception, and critical commentary, producing a work that argues for the centrality of religious experiences to any legitimate understanding of jazz, while also suggesting that jazz opens up new interpretations of American religious history. Bivins examines themes such as musical creativity as related to specific religious traditions, jazz as a form of ritual and healing, and jazz cosmologies and metaphysics. Spirits Rejoice! connects Religious Studies to Jazz Studies through thematic portraits, and a vast number of interviews to propose a new, improvisationally fluid archive for thinking about religion, race, and sound in the United States. Bivins's conclusions explore how the sound of spirits rejoicing challenges not only prevailing understandings of race and music, but also the way we think about religion. Spirits Rejoice! is an essential volume for any student of jazz, American religion, or American culture.
The Creation Of Jazz
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Author : Burton William Peretti
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1994
The Creation Of Jazz written by Burton William Peretti and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Music categories.
As musicians, listeners, and scholars have sensed for many years, the story of jazz is more than a history of the music. Burton Peretti presents a fascinating account of how the racial and cultural dynamics of American cities created the music, life, and business that was jazz. From its origins in the jook joints of sharecroppers and the streets and dance halls of 1890s New Orleans, through its later metamorphoses in the cities of the North, Peretti charts the life of jazz culture to the eve of bebop and World War II. In the course of those fifty years, jazz was the story of players who made the transition from childhood spasm bands to Carnegie Hall and worldwide touring and fame. It became the music of the Twenties, a decade of Prohibition, of adolescent discontent, of Harlem pride, and of Americans hoping to preserve cultural traditions in an urban, commercial age. And jazz was where black and white musicians performed together, as uneasy partners, in the big bands of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman. "Blacks fought back by using jazz," states Peretti, "with its unique cultural and intellectual properties, to prove, assess, and evade the "dynamic of minstrelsy." Drawing on newspaper reports of the times and on the firsthand testimony of more than seventy prominent musicians and singers (among them Benny Carter, Bud Freeman, Kid Ory, and Mary Lou Williams), The Creation of Jazz is the first comprehensive analysis of the role of early jazz in American social history.
Jazz And American Culture
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Author : Michael Borshuk
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-30
Jazz And American Culture written by Michael Borshuk and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores jazz as a cultural lodestone and source of critical inquiry for over a century.
Jazz In Black And White
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Author : Charley Gerard
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2001-07-30
Jazz In Black And White written by Charley Gerard and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-30 with Music categories.
Is jazz a universal idiom or is it an African-American art form? The author, himself a jazz composer, performer and author of several books on jazz and Latin music, sets out to encourage jazz-lovers to take a rhetoric-free look at the charged issue of race as it has affected the world of jazz.