Jazz In Black And White
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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.
Black Music White Business
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Author : Frank Kofsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Black Music White Business written by Frank Kofsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Music categories.
Probes the conflicts between the artistry of Black musicians and the control by largely white-owned businesses of jazz distribution--the recording companies, booking agencies, festivals, clubs, and magazines.
Black Beauty White Heat
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Author : Frank Driggs
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 1996-03-21
Black Beauty White Heat written by Frank Driggs and has been published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03-21 with Music categories.
Reprint (with the omission of the color insert) of a work published in New York in 1982. Photos of musicians, record labels, and promotional flyers and posters are accompanied by lively and affectionate explanatory text. An exuberant reference, dense with both visual and textual information. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Lift Every Voice And Swing
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Author : Vaughn A. Booker
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2020-07-21
Lift Every Voice And Swing written by Vaughn A. Booker and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-21 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the 2022 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, award by by the Council of Graduate Schools Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives of African American religion in the twentieth century Beginning in the 1920s, the Jazz Age propelled Black swing artists into national celebrity. Many took on the role of race representatives, and were able to leverage their popularity toward achieving social progress for other African Americans. In Lift Every Voice and Swing, Vaughn A. Booker argues that with the emergence of these popular jazz figures, who came from a culture shaped by Black Protestantism, religious authority for African Americans found a place and spokespeople outside of traditional Afro-Protestant institutions and religious life. Popular Black jazz professionals—such as Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams—inherited religious authority though they were not official religious leaders. Some of these artists put forward a religious culture in the mid-twentieth century by releasing religious recordings and putting on religious concerts, and their work came to be seen as integral to the Black religious ethos. Booker documents this transformative era in religious expression, in which jazz musicians embodied religious beliefs and practices that echoed and diverged from the predominant African American religious culture. He draws on the heretofore unexamined private religious writings of Duke Ellington and Mary Lou Williams, and showcases the careers of female jazz artists alongside those of men, expanding our understanding of African American religious expression and decentering the Black church as the sole concept for understanding Black Protestant religiosity. Featuring gorgeous prose and insightful research, Lift Every Voice and Swing will change the way we understand the connections between jazz music and faith.
Jazz And Justice
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Author : Gerald Horne
language : en
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Release Date : 2019-06-18
Jazz And Justice written by Gerald Horne and has been published by Monthly Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-18 with Music categories.
A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most likely in New Orleans—based on the musical traditions of Africans, newly freed from slavery. Grounded in the music known as the “blues,” which expressed the pain, sufferings, and hopes of Black folk then pulverized by Jim Crow, this new music entered the world via the instruments that had been abandoned by departing military bands after the Civil War. Jazz and Justice examines the economic, social, and political forces that shaped this music into a phenomenal US—and Black American—contribution to global arts and culture. Horne assembles a galvanic story depicting what may have been the era’s most virulent economic—and racist—exploitation, as jazz musicians battled organized crime, the Ku Klux Klan, and other variously malignant forces dominating the nightclub scene where jazz became known. Horne pays particular attention to women artists, such as pianist Mary Lou Williams and trombonist Melba Liston, and limns the contributions of musicians with Native American roots. This is the story of a beautiful lotus, growing from the filth of the crassest form of human immiseration.
A Life In Jazz
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Author : Danny Barker
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-27
A Life In Jazz written by Danny Barker and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with Music categories.
As a musician who grew up in New Orleans, and later worked in New York with the major swing orchestras of Lucky Millinder and Cab Calloway, Barker is uniquely placed to give an authoritative but personal view of jazz history. In this book he discusses his life in music, from the children's 'spasm' bands of the seventh ward of New Orleans, through the experience of brass bands and jazz funerals involving his grandfather, Isidore Barbarin, to his early days on the road with the blues singer Little Brother Montgomery. Later he goes on to discuss New York, and the jazz scene he found there in 1930. His work with Jelly Roll Morton, as well as the lesser-known bands of Fess Williams and Albert Nicholas, is covered before a full account of his years with Millinder, Benny Carter and Calloway, including a description of Dizzy Gillespie's impact on jazz, is given. The final chapters discuss Barker's career from the late 1940s. Starting with the New York dixieland scene at Ryan's and Condon's he talks of his work with Wilbur de Paris, James P. Johnson and This is Jazz, before discussing his return to New Orleans and New Orleans Jazz Museum. A collection of Barker's photographs,
Lost Chords
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Author : Richard M. Sudhalter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Lost Chords written by Richard M. Sudhalter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Jazz categories.
The purpose of this text is to reclaim the role white musicians have played in jazz from early in the 20th century to the end of WW2, stressing that jazz is an American, not just an African-American form of musical experience.
What Is This Thing Called Jazz
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Author : Eric Porter
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2002-01-31
What Is This Thing Called Jazz written by Eric Porter 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 2002-01-31 with Music categories.
Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric Porter overturns this tendency in his creative intellectual history of African American musicians. He foregrounds the often-ignored ideas of these artists, analyzing them in the context of meanings circulating around jazz, as well as in relationship to broader currents in African American thought. Porter examines several crucial moments in the history of jazz: the formative years of the 1920s and 1930s; the emergence of bebop; the political and experimental projects of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s; and the debates surrounding Jazz at Lincoln Center under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. Louis Armstrong, Anthony Braxton, Marion Brown, Duke Ellington, W.C. Handy, Yusef Lateef, Abbey Lincoln, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Wadada Leo Smith, Mary Lou Williams, and Reggie Workman also feature prominently in this book. The wealth of information Porter uncovers shows how these musicians have expressed themselves in print; actively shaped the institutional structures through which the music is created, distributed, and consumed, and how they aligned themselves with other artists and activists, and how they were influenced by forces of class and gender. What Is This Thing Called Jazz? challenges interpretive orthodoxies by showing how much black jazz musicians have struggled against both the racism of the dominant culture and the prescriptive definitions of racial authenticity propagated by the music's supporters, both white and black.
Central Avenue Sounds
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Author : Clora Bryant
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998
Central Avenue Sounds written by Clora Bryant 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 1998 with History categories.
Here too are recollections of Hollywood's effects on local culture, the precedent-setting merger of the black and white musicians' unions, and the repercussions from the racism in the Los Angeles Police Department in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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.