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Jazz Icons

Author : Tony Whyton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107610828
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Icons written by Tony Whyton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, jazz history is dominated by iconic figures who have taken on an almost God-like status. From Satchmo to Duke, Bird to Trane, these legendary jazzmen form the backbone of the jazz tradition. Jazz icons not only provide musicians and audiences with figureheads to revere but have also come to stand for a number of values and beliefs that shape our view of the music itself. Jazz Icons explores the growing significance of icons in jazz and discusses the reasons why the music's history is increasingly dependent on the legacies of 'great men'. Using a series of individual case studies, Whyton examines the influence of jazz icons through different forms of historical mediation, including the recording, language, image and myth. The book encourages readers to take a fresh look at their relationship with iconic figures of the past and challenges many of the dominant narratives in jazz today.

Icons of Jazz

Author : Dave Gelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840441420
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Icons of Jazz written by Dave Gelly and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In celebration of the first hundred years of jazz, Icons of Jazz presents a selection of representatives from all aspects of the genre: the New Orleans and Dixieland of the first two decades of the 20th century; the swing and jump jive of the 1920s and 1930s; bebop and its legacy of the 1940s and 1950s; the free jazz of the 1960s; jazz-rock from the 1970s; and the melting pot that was jazz in the 1980s and throughout the 1990s. Each entry includes details of the life and work of the artist or band concerned, recommends essential recordings, and is illustrated with stunning black-and-white photographs."--

From the Minds of Jazz Musicians

Author : David Schroeder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315282550
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book From the Minds of Jazz Musicians written by David Schroeder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Minds of Jazz Musicians: Conversations with the Creative and Inspired celebrates contemporary jazz artists who have toiled, struggled and succeeded in finding their creative space. The volume was developed through transcribing and editing selected interviews with 35 jazz artists, conducted by the author between 2009 and 2012 in New York City, with a historical essay on each artist to provide context. The interviews feature musicians from a broad range of musical styles and experiences, ranging from Gerald Wilson, born in 1918, to Chris Potter, born in 1971. Topics range from biographical life histories to artists’ descriptions of mentor relationships, revealing the important life lessons they learned along the way. With the goal to discover the person behind the persona, the author elicits conversations that speak volumes on the creative process, mining the individualistic perspectives of seminal artists who witnessed history in the making. The interviews present the artists’ candid and direct opinions on music and how they have succeeded in pursuing their unique and creative lives.

The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender

Author : James Reddan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000591514
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender written by James Reddan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender identifies, defines, and interrogates the construct of gender in all forms of jazz, jazz culture, and education, shaping and transforming the conversation in response to changing cultural and societal norms across the globe. Such interrogation requires consideration of gender from multiple viewpoints, from scholars and artists at various points in their careers. This edited collection of 38 essays gathers the diverse perspectives of contributors from four continents, exploring the nuanced (and at times controversial) construct of gender as it relates to jazz music, in the past and present, in four parts: Historical Perspectives Identity and Culture Society and Education Policy and Advocacy Acknowledging the art form’s troubled relationship with gender, contributors seek to define the construct to include all possible definitions—not only female and male—without binary limitations, contextualizing gender and jazz in both place and time. As gender identity becomes an increasingly important consideration in both education and scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender provides a broad and inclusive resource of research for the academic community, addressing an urgent need to reconcile the construct of gender in jazz in all its forms.

The Jazz Harmony Book

Author : David Berkman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781883217792
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Jazz Harmony Book written by David Berkman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teaches the ideas behind adding chords to melodies. It begins with basic chords and progressions, and moves to more complex ideas. With an introduction and two appendices. Two CDs of additional material.

Icons of Black America [3 volumes]

Author : Matthew Whitaker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313376433
Total Pages : 1201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis Icons of Black America [3 volumes] by : Matthew Whitaker

Download or read book Icons of Black America [3 volumes] written by Matthew Whitaker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 1201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning collection of essays illuminates the lives and legacies of the most famous and powerful individuals, groups, and institutions in African American history. The three-volume Icons of Black America: Breaking Barriers and Crossing Boundaries is an exhaustive treatment of 100 African American people, groups, and organizations, viewed from a variety of perspectives. The alphabetically arranged entries illuminate the history of highly successful and influential individuals who have transcended mere celebrity to become representatives of their time. It offers analysis and perspective on some of the most influential black people, organizations, and institutions in American history, from the late 19th century to the present. Each chapter is a detailed exploration of the life and legacy of an individual icon. Through these portraits, readers will discover how these icons have shaped, and been shaped by, the dynamism of American culture, as well as the extent to which modern mass media and popular culture have contributed to the rise, and sometimes fall, of these powerful symbols of individual and group excellence.

Transcultural Jazz

Author : Noam Lemish
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003831141
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Transcultural Jazz written by Noam Lemish and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcultural Jazz: Israeli Musicians and Multi-Local Music Making studies jazz performance and composition through the examination of the transcultural practices of Israeli jazz musicians and their impact globally. An impressive number of Israeli jazz performers have received widespread exposure and worldwide acclaim, creating music that melds aspects of American jazz with an array of Israeli, Jewish and Middle Eastern influences and other non-Western musical traditions. While each musician is developing their own approach to musical transculturation, common threads connect them all. Unraveling and analyzing these entangled sounds and related discourses lies at the center of this study. This book provides broad insight into the nature, role and politics of transcultural music making in contemporary jazz practice. Focusing on a particular group of Israeli musicians to enhance knowledge of modern Israeli society, culture, discourses and practices, the research and analyses presented in this book are based on extensive fieldwork in multiple sites in the United States and Israel, and interviews with musicians, educators, journalists, producers and scholars. Transcultural Jazz is an engaging read for students and scholars from diverse fields such as: jazz studies, ethnomusicology, Jewish studies, Israel studies and transnational studies.

The Real Jazz Pedagogy Book

Author : Ray Smith
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977208150
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book The Real Jazz Pedagogy Book written by Ray Smith and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a jazz teacher for jazz teachers, "The Real Jazz Pedagogy Book" is based on the premise that successful jazz teachers must be constantly working four main areas: 1) the wind instruments-including tone production, intonation, and section playing skills; 2) playing styles correctly-such as rhythmic and time feel approach, articulation approach, and phrasing; 3) the rhythm section-playing the instruments, time feel and concept, coordination of comping, harmonic voicings, drum fills and setups, stylistic differences; and 4) the soloists-developing improvisational skills (both right brain and left brain), jazz theory, the ballad soloist, and the vocal soloist. Ray Smith, who has taught and directed jazz ensembles, including the acclaimed Brigham Young University group, Synthesis, and given private lessons for over forty years, also discusses the details of running school programs. Smith's YouTube channel complements "The Real Jazz Pedagogy Book."

West Coast Jazz

Author : Ted Gioia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520217294
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book West Coast Jazz written by Ted Gioia and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Gioia tells the story of jazz as it has never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Gioia provides readers with lively portraits of great musicians, intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. 9 photos.

Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons

Author : Aaron Lefkovitz
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498555764
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons written by Aaron Lefkovitz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 centers twentieth and twenty-first century black-transnational stereotypes, celebrities, and symbols Lena Horne's, Dorothy Dandridge;s, and Queen Latifah’s transnational popular cultural struggles between domination and autonomy, with a particular emphasis on their films and popular music. Linking each performer to twentieth century U.S., African-American, and global gender histories and noting the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and empire in their overlapping transnational biographies, Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 connects Horne, Dandridge, and Latifah to each other and legacies of Hollywood stereotypes and popular music’s internationally-routed politics. Through a close reading of Horne's, Dandridge's, and Latifah’s films and popular music, the performers tie to historic black-transnational caricatures, from the “tragic mulatto” to Sapphire, Mammy, and Jezebel, and additional, non-white female performers, from Josephine Baker to Halle Berry, maneuvering within transnational popular culture industrial matrices and against white supremacist and hetero-patriarchal forces.

Icons of African American Literature

Author : Yolanda Williams Page
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313352046
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Icons of African American Literature written by Yolanda Williams Page and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 24 entries in this book provide extensive coverage of some of the most notable figures in African American literature, such as Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston. Icons of African American Literature: The Black Literary World examines 24 of the most popular and culturally significant topics within African American literature's long and immensely fascinating history. Each piece provide substantial, in-depth information—much more than a typical encyclopedia entry—while remaining accessible and appealing to general and younger readers. Arranged alphabetically, the entries cover such writers as Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and August Wilson; major works, such as Invisible Man, Native Son, and Their Eyes Were Watching God; and a range of cultural topics, including the black arts movement, the Harlem Renaissance, and the jazz aesthetic. Written by expert contributors, the essays discuss the enduring significance of these topics in American history and popular culture. Each entry also provides sidebars that highlight interesting information and suggestions for further reading.

Icons of Rock

Author : Dr Jenny Boyd
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782194622
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Icons of Rock written by Dr Jenny Boyd and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how your favourite rock stars get inspired? How they write a song? How an album is put together? What made them choose a life devoted to music? In this exciting, original and inspiring book, 75 of the world's most iconic musicians - including Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Julian Lennon, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Don Henley, Hank Marvin, Keith Richards, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr, Steve Winwood, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Joni Mitchell - reveal their thoughts on creating music, and their key to success. Psychologist Jenny Boyd has probed the minds and souls of these artists and has delved into the drive to create, the importance of nurturing creativity, the role of unconscious influences and the effects of chemicals and drugs on the creative process. This is the perfect gift for any music lover and rock 'n' roll fan.

Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis

Author : Aaron Lefkovitz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498567525
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis written by Aaron Lefkovitz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.

Herbie Hancock: The Blue Note Years

Author : Olegario Diaz
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456622064
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Herbie Hancock: The Blue Note Years written by Olegario Diaz and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This theoretical book is meant to improve contemporary jazz styles techniques for all musician players of modern jazz. These exercises were made as an extension of my book "240 Chromatic Exercises + 1165 Jazz Lines Phrases For The Modern Improviser".

Living with Jazz

Author : Dan Morgenstern
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307487601
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Living with Jazz written by Dan Morgenstern and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays, biographical profiles, and critical analyses by one of the twentieth century's leading jazz writers includes commentary on the work of jazz entertainers, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong, as well as assessment of the role of jazz in contemporary culture and its influence on modern music.

From Jazz Novice to Jazz Connoisseur

Author : The Jazzsippers Group
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365887812
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book From Jazz Novice to Jazz Connoisseur written by The Jazzsippers Group and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become a Jazz Connoisseur In Just One Read...A connoisseur is a person who, through study and interest, has a fine appreciation for something, like the connoisseur who can identify the clarinet player on a jazz recording the sound of his inhalations alone.

The Golden Age of Jazz

Author :
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Jazz written by and published by New York : Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1979 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling collection of photographs that reveal the people, places, and events of Jazz's Golden Age the period from the late 1930s through the 1940s during which the music underwent enormous growth and transformation. Two hundred b&w photographs are included, accompanied by Gottlieb's recollection