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Author : Thomas Laurence Riis
Publisher : Smithsonian
ISBN 13 : 9780874747881
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)
Download or read book JUST BEFORE JAZZ written by Thomas Laurence Riis and published by Smithsonian. This book was released on 1989-09-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Laurence Riis
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Just Before Jazz written by Thomas Laurence Riis and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1989 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : RIIS THOMAS L
Publisher : Smithsonian
ISBN 13 : 9781560985013
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)
Download or read book JUST BEFORE JAZZ PB written by RIIS THOMAS L and published by Smithsonian. This book was released on 1994-10-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Vihlen McGregor
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498528775
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Jazz and Postwar French Identity written by Elizabeth Vihlen McGregor and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of a shifting domestic and international status quo that was evolving in the decades following World War II, French audiences used jazz as a means of negotiating a wide range of issues that were pressing to them and to their fellow citizens. Despite the fact that jazz was fundamentally linked to the multicultural through its origins in the hands of African-American musicians, happenings within the French jazz public reflected much about France’s postwar society. In the minds of many, jazz was connected to youth culture, but instead of challenging traditional gender expectations, the music tended to reinforce long-held stereotypes. French critics, musicians, and fans contended with the reality of American superpower strength and often strove to elevate their own country’s stature in relation to the United States by finding fault with American consumer society and foreign policy aims. Jazz audiences used this music to condemn American racism and to support the American civil rights movement, expressing strong reservations about the American way of life. French musicians lobbied to create professional opportunities for themselves, and some went so far as to create a union that endorsed preferential treatment for French nationals. As France became more ethnically and religiously diverse due immigration from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, French jazz critics and fans noted the insidious appearance of racism in their own country and had to contend with how their own citizens would address the changing demographics of the nation, even if they continued to insist that racism was more prevalent in the United States. As independence movements brought an end to the French empire, jazz enthusiasts from both former colonies and France had to reenvision their relationship to jazz and to the music’s international audiences. In these postwar decades, the French were working to preserve a distinct national identity in the face of weakened global authority, most forcefully represented by decolonization and American hegemony. Through this originally African American music, French listeners, commentators, and musicians participated in a process that both challenged and reinforced ideas about their own culture and nation.
Author : Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110883423X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book On Jazz written by Alyn Shipton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and fascinating up-close encounter with jazz, brim-full of anecdote and personal reminiscence, by an internationally known broadcaster and writer.
Author : W. Royal Stokes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195347913
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (479 download)
Download or read book Growing up with Jazz written by W. Royal Stokes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's career. In Growing Up With Jazz , he has interviewed twenty-four instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the early influences that started them on the road to jazz and where that road has taken them. Stokes offers a kaleidoscopic look at the jazz scene, featuring musicians from a dazzling array of backgrounds. Ray Gelato recalls the life of a working class youth in London, Patrizia Scascitelli recounts being a child prodigy in Rome who became the first woman of Italian jazz, and Billy Taylor tells about his childhood in Washington, DC, where his grandfather was a Baptist minister and his father a dentist--and everyone in the family seemed well trained in music. Perhaps most exotic is Luluk Purwanto, an Indonesian violinist who as a child listened to gamelan music in the morning and took violin lessons in the afternoon (on an instrument so expensive she didn't dare quit). For some, the flame burned bright at an early age. Jane Monheit sang before she could speak and was set on a musical career by age eight. Lisa Sokolov played classical piano, sang opera and choral music, and was in a jazz band--all by high school. But Carol Sudhalter, though born into a very musical family ("a Bix Beiderbecke family"), was a botany major at Smith, and only became a serious musician after college, quitting a government job to study the flute and saxophone in Italy. From Art Blakey to Claire Daly to Don Byron, here are the compelling stories of two dozen top musicians finding their way in the world of jazz.
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Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Metronome written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Hardie
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491714441
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Jazz Historiography written by Daniel Hardie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz has been around for over a hundred years but how much do we know about its history, and how much of what think we know is true? Beginning in the so called Jazz Age of the 1920s jazz history was recounted and interpreted by admiring authors and record collectors both in the United States and elsewhere. However, since the early 1990s some historians have come to doubt the validity of the conventional narrative of the story of jazz and some of its most hallowed traditions. In Jazz Historiography: The Story of Jazz History Writing Daniel Hardie uncovers the course of jazz history writing from early Jazz Age American and French publications to Academic texts in the 2000s, and seeks answers to questions about the accuracy of those accounts and the influence they have had on our understanding of jazz history - even the impact they might have had on the course of jazz history itself. How much for example did the work of jazz historians influence the course of the New Orleans Revival? Was the appearance of bebop in the 1940s a revolutionary response to oppression experienced by Afro American musicians in a commercialized popular music industry, or was it an attempt to mirror the development of classical music of the time? How has the development of University jazz studies influenced the writing of jazz history?
Author : Bill Kirchner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198028938
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Jazz written by Bill Kirchner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-19 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz and its colorful, expansive history resonate in this unique collection of 60 essays specially-commissioned from today's top jazz performers, writers, and scholars. Contributors include such jazz insiders as Bill Crow, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Ted Gioia, Gene Lees, Dan Morgenstern, Gunther Schuller, Richard M. Sudhalter, and Patricia Willard. Both a reference book and an engaging read, the Companion surveys the evolution of jazz from its roots in Africa and Europe until the present. Along the way, each distinctive style and period is profiled by an expert in the field. Whether your preference is ragtime, the blues, bebop, or fusion, you will find the chief characteristics and memorable performances illuminated here with a thoroughness found in no other single-volume jazz reference. The Oxford Companion to Jazz features individual biographies of the most memorable characters of this relatively young art form. Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and the divas of jazz song--Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan--come to life in thoughtful considerations of their influences, often turbulent personal lives, and signature styles. In addition, this book looks at the impact of jazz on American culture-in literature, film, television, and dance-and explores the essential instruments of jazz and their most memorable players. The Oxford Companion to Jazz will provide a quick reference source as well as a dynamic and broad overview for all lovers of jazz, from novices to aficionados.
Author : Brian Morton
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959002
Total Pages : 1113 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Jazz Guide written by Brian Morton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 1113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked out the 1000 best recordings that all jazz fans should have and shows how they tell the history of the music and with it the history of the twentieth century. He has completely revised his and Richard Cook's entries and reassessed each artist's entry for this book. The result is an endlessly browsable companion that will prove required reading for aficionados and jazz novices alike. 'It's the kind of book that you'll yank off the shelf to look up a quick fact and still be reading two hours later' Fortune 'Part jazz history, part jazz Karma Sutra with Cook and Morton as the knowledgeable, urbane, wise and witty guides ... This is one of the great books of recorded jazz; the other guides don't come close' Irish Times
Author : Al Rose
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807125717
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (257 download)
Download or read book I Remember Jazz written by Al Rose and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. For many of them he has organized concerts, composed songs that they later played or sang, and promoted their acts. He has, when called upon, bailed them out of jail, straightened out their finances, stood up for them at their weddings, and eulogized them at their funerals. He has caroused with them in bars and clubs from New Orleans to New York, from Paris to Singapore -- and survived to tell the story. The result has been a lifetime of friendship with some of the music world's most engaging and rambunctious personalities. In I Remember Jazz, Rose draws on this unparallelled experience to recall, through brief but poignant vignettes, the greats and the near-greats of jazz. In a style that is always entertaining, unabashedly idiosyncratic, and frequently irreverent, he writes about Jelly Roll Morton and Bunny Berigan, Eubie Blake and Bobby Hackett, Earl Hines and Louis Armstrong, and more than fifty others. Rose was only twenty-two when he was first introduced to Jelly Roll Morton. He quickly discovered that they had more in common than a love of music. Something of a peacock at that age, Rose was dressed in a "polychromatic, green-striped suit, pink shirt with a detachable white collar, dubonnet tie, buttonhole, and handkerchief" -- and so was Jelly Roll. About Eubie Blake, Rose notes that he was not only a superb musician but also a notorious ladies' man. Rose recalls asking the noted pianist when he was ninety-seven, "How old do you have to be before the sex drive goes?" Blake's reply: "You'll have to ask someone older than me." Once in 1947, Rose was asked to assemble a group of musicians to play at a reception to be hosted by President Truman at Blair House in Washington, D.C. The musicians included Muggsy Spanier, George Brunies, Pee Wee Russell, Pops Foster, and Baby DOdds. But the hit of the evening was President Truman himself, who joined the group on the piano to play "Kansas City Kitty" and the "Missouri Waltz." I Remember Jazz is replete with such amusing and affectionate anecdotes -- vignettes that will delight all fans of the music. Al Rose does indeed remember jazz. And for that we can all be grateful.
Author : Thomas Hischak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350423742
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Song of the Season written by Thomas Hischak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What links the popular songs "You'll Never Walk Alone", "Send in the Clowns", "Memory" and "I Am What I Am"? They all originated in Broadway musicals. Song of the Season is for those who believe that the score is at the heart of a musical and is the essential building block on which the rest of a show is built. Through a systematic historical survey from 1891 to 2023 it argues that the best musicals survive because of their songs, from early 20th century classics such as Show Boat and Oklahoma! through to the contemporary sound of Dear Evan Hansen and Hamilton. looking at outstanding songs from each Broadway season, the development and history of the musical is illustrated with a fresh perspective. As song styles and popular music tastes changed throughout the decades this structure charts the progress of American showtunes alongside popular music forms as songs evolved from the waltz and ragtime to jazz, rock, rap and hip-hop. Factual analysis and historical context combine to offer a rich picture of the American songbook from Irving Berlin to Elton John. Song of the Season paints a fresh picture for musical theatre students and fans alike, illustrating significant changes in the form through the music. Analyzed in an accessible and engaging way that doesn't rely on music theory knowledge, and including a link to playlist where all the 'songs of the seasons' can be listened to, it is a must-have for those looking to expand their knowledge of the form and trace the social history of the American showtune.
Author : Barbara Rothstein
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780740727191
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (271 download)
Download or read book How to Set Your Wedding to Music written by Barbara Rothstein and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, the challenging task of selecting and organizing music for your wedding has been simplified. Step-by-step, award-winning songwriters and wedding music experts Barbara Rothstein and Gloria Sklerov reveal the secrets of creating the perfect wedding music program, from romantic entrance to last dance. How to Set Your Wedding to Music details everything you need to know to create a magical day, whether you're planning a formal church wedding or a casual outdoor ceremony. Here you will find inside information on bands, DJs, equipment, and contracts, as well as sample music programs, song lists, planning and budgeting tips, and much more. Pages of workbook space give you plenty of room to take notes, and the companion CD -- perfect for playing at any wedding -- will inspire you with thirteen traditional wedding classics. This unique package is a must-have for couples who want to make their wedding day unforgettable. Book jacket.
Author : Chip Deffaa
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062582
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Voices of the Jazz Age written by Chip Deffaa and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features interviews of Sam Wooding, Benny Waters, Joe Tarto, Bud Freeman, Jimmy McPartland, Freddie Moore, and Jabbo Smith, and Bix Beiderbecke's letters to his family.
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Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 730 pages
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Download or read book New Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
