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Strange Jazz

Author : Steve Hermanos
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595162398
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Strange Jazz written by Steve Hermanos and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-01-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From plucking antique furniture from abandoned rural Kansas homes, to exploring the wild underbelly of New York, narrator Jack Pierce describes the decline of his hometown and the kaleidoscopic New York he's privy to as a music critic. Jack is troubled by the rising tension between his two younger brothers: Benji -- a quintessential Wall Street Yuppie bent on becoming the next Donald Trump -- and Archie -- an idealistic intern at the New York Times. Archie and Benji clash after the Tompkins Square Riots, when Archie turns Benji's largest building into a shelter for homeless people. When Benji finds out, he takes matters into his own hands. Jack tries to mediate, only to be kidnapped by a female Coca-Cola-addicted drug lord who develops a crush on Jack. Jazz, poetry, the wheat fields of Kansas, the colorful cast of characters from their dying home town, the edgiest and most beautiful New Yorkers, all are notes and chords in this wonderful symphony of a novel.

Strange Stars

Author : Jason Heller
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612196977
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Strange Stars written by Jason Heller and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hugo Award-winning author and music journalist explores the weird and wild story of when rock ’n’ roll met the sci-fi world of the 1970s As the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrated sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. Derided as nerdy or dismissed as fluff, science fiction rarely gets credit for its catalyzing effect on this revolution. In Strange Stars, Jason Heller recasts sci-fi and pop music as parallel cultural forces that depended on one another to expand the horizons of books, music, and out-of-this-world imagery. In doing so, he presents a whole generation of revered musicians as the sci-fi-obsessed conjurers they really were: from Sun Ra lecturing on the black man in the cosmos, to Pink Floyd jamming live over the broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing; from a wave of Star Wars disco chart toppers and synthesiser-wielding post-punks, to Jimi Hendrix distilling the “purplish haze” he discovered in a pulp novel into psychedelic song. Of course, the whole scene was led by David Bowie, who hid in the balcony of a movie theater to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, and came out a changed man… If today’s culture of Comic Con fanatics, superhero blockbusters, and classic sci-fi reboots has us thinking that the nerds have won at last, Strange Stars brings to life an era of unparalleled and unearthly creativity—in magazines, novels, films, records, and concerts—to point out that the nerds have been winning all along.

Strange Fruit

Author : Gary Golio
Publisher : Millbrook Press (Tm)
ISBN 13 : 1467751235
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Strange Fruit written by Gary Golio and published by Millbrook Press (Tm). This book was released on 2017 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of how Billie Holiday and songwriter Abel Meeropol combined their talents to create "Strange Fruit," the iconic protest song that brought attention to lynching and racism in America.

Mamaleh Knows Best

Author : Marjorie Ingall
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0804141428
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Mamaleh Knows Best written by Marjorie Ingall and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know the stereotype of the Jewish mother: Hectoring, guilt-inducing, clingy as a limpet. In Mamaleh Knows Best, Tablet Magazine columnist Marjorie Ingall smashes this tired trope with a hammer. Blending personal anecdotes, humor, historical texts, and scientific research, Ingall shares Jewish secrets for raising self-sufficient, ethical, and accomplished children. She offers abundant examples showing how Jewish mothers have nurtured their children’s independence, fostered discipline, urged a healthy distrust of authority, consciously cultivated geekiness and kindness, stressed education, and maintained a sense of humor. These time-tested strategies have proven successful in a wide variety of settings and fields over the vast span of history. But you don't have to be Jewish to cultivate the same qualities in your own children. Ingall will make you think, she will make you laugh, and she will make you a better parent. You might not produce a Nobel Prize winner (or hey, you might), but you'll definitely get a great human being.

The Jazz Trope

Author : Alfonso Wilson Hawkins
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810861268
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book The Jazz Trope written by Alfonso Wilson Hawkins and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jazz Trope takes a look at the African American lifestyle through the lens of jazz, blues, and spirituals. Through the pioneering efforts of Albert Murray, Ralph Ellison, Houston Baker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, and other notable scholars who have related jazz, spirituals, and blues to African American life and culture, The Jazz Trope offers an opportunity to add scholarship to the perception of African American identity as a creative attempt to survive a unique history and struggle. Transcending structure and the perimeters that it limits, African American musical statements were produced out of a human need to be free. Using jazz as a metaphor for escaping slavery, jazz can be seen as a creative attempt to exceed restriction through the act of improvisation; jazz takes a known melody and changes it to create a personal identity. The literary genre of African American life reflects this melding of musical milieu. It tells through tropes of the folktale, novel, self-script, slave narrative, myth, and legend a unique American experience and history. This book also explores motives and schemes that were hidden behind musical codes, illustrating that jazz (interrelated with its foundation in blues and spirituals) existed as a pre-musical statement and, then, manifested as it is more popularly known: as a musical statement. The Jazz Trope allows students to grasp the jazz song structure within this work and liken it to the tropes that it emits: a true American identity.

Frontiers of Jazz

Author : Ralph de Toledano
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455604678
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Jazz written by Ralph de Toledano and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1966 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jazz

Author : Sidney Walter Finkelstein
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178912848X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Jazz written by Sidney Walter Finkelstein and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PLACE OF JAZZ IN WORLD MUSIC... ITS HISTORY FROM NEW ORLEANS TO THE PRESENT DAY... ITS BEAUTY AS MUSIC... AND THE GREATNESS OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT... This is a book for everyone who loves music—classical or jazz; for the one who performs or the one who makes up his audience. To either one it will contribute much for a better understanding and appreciation of this greatest and most widely participated in art. Everyone knows about jazz. We listen to it, we sing it, play it and dance to it. Yet it is the great unknown music. Jazz, A People’s Music describes all the developments of jazz from the early blues to present-day “bebop.” And just as the study of a composer’s music must include the man himself, here is an account of the growth of jazz as well as the study of all the American people, of every nationality and color, who have nurtured and welcomed this music and brought new and exciting variations of it into being.

Children’s Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation

Author : Guro Gravem Johansen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429837461
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Children’s Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation written by Guro Gravem Johansen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improbasen is a Norwegian private learning centre that offers beginner's instrumental tuition within jazz improvisation for children between the ages of 7 and 15. This book springs out of a two-year ethnographic study of the teaching and learning activity at Improbasen, highlighting features from the micro-interactions within the lessons, the organisation of Improbasen, and its international activity. Music teachers, students, and scholars within music education as well as jazz research will benefit from the perspectives presented in the book, which shows how children systematically acquire tools for improvisation and shared codes for interplay. Through a process of guided participation in jazz culture, even very young children are empowered to take part in a global, creative musical practice with improvisation as an educational core. This book critically engages in current discussions about jazz pedagogy, inclusion and gender equity, beginning instrumental tuition, creativity, and authenticity in childhood.

Reading Jazz

Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307797279
Total Pages : 1087 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Reading Jazz written by Robert Gottlieb and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 1087 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comprehensive and intelligently organized. . . . Jazz aficionados . . . should be grateful to have so much good writing on the subject in one place."--The New York Times Book Review "Alluring. . . . Capture[s] much of the breadth of the music, as well as the passionate debates it has stirred, more vividly than any other jazz anthology to date."--Chicago Tribune No musical idiom has inspired more fine writing than jazz, and nowhere has that writing been presented with greater comprehensiveness and taste than in this glorious collection. In Reading Jazz, editor Robert Gottlieb combs through eighty years of autobiography, reportage, and criticism by the music's greatest players, commentators, and fans to create what is at once a monumental tapestry of jazz history and testimony to the elegance, vigor, and variety of jazz writing. Here are Jelly Roll Morton, recalling the whorehouse piano players of New Orleans in 1902; Whitney Balliett, profiling clarinetist Pee Wee Russell; poet Philip Larkin, with an eloquently dyspeptic jeremiad against bop. Here, too, are the voices of Billie Holiday and Charles Mingus, Albert Murray and Leonard Bernstein, Stanley Crouch and LeRoi Jones, reminiscing, analyzing, celebrating, and settling scores. For anyone who loves the music--or the music of great prose--Reading Jazz is indispensable. "The ideal gift for jazzniks and boppers everywhere. . . . It gathers the best and most varied jazz writing of more than a century."--Sunday Times (London)

Music Is Rapid Transportation

Author : Lawrence Joseph
Publisher : Charivari Press
ISBN 13 : 1895166047
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Music Is Rapid Transportation written by Lawrence Joseph and published by Charivari Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly alternative look at music lists, not one that merely includes the obvious but shows the connections of popular music to the avant garde, the obscure, the experimental, the quirky, and the adventurous, this edition leads the curious reader towards new musical experiences hitherto unknown to them.

Billie Holiday: The Voice of Jazz

Author : ChatStick Team
Publisher : ChatStick Team
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billie Holiday: The Voice of Jazz written by ChatStick Team and published by ChatStick Team. This book was released on 2024-08-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 🎵 Billie Holiday: The Voice of Jazz 🎵 Step into the soulful world of Billie Holiday with this compelling volume from the "Voices of Legends" series, thoughtfully created by the ChatStick Team. Billie Holiday's deeply emotive voice and timeless jazz classics have left an enduring mark on music history. 🎤✨ In "Billie Holiday: The Voice of Jazz", you'll uncover: 📖 An intimate portrait of Holiday's journey, from her early days in Harlem to her rise as an international music icon. 🎶 Detailed stories behind her most celebrated songs and performances. 💫 Vivid imagery and personal anecdotes that bring her legacy to life. 🎷 Insightful reflections on her impact on the world of jazz and swing. This book provides a fresh perspective on Billie Holiday's monumental contributions to music, making it an essential read for collectors, enthusiasts, and anyone moved by the power of song. Rediscover the magic of Billie Holiday's voice and the profound influence of jazz through this richly detailed narrative. 📚❤️

DC Jazz

Author : Maurice Jackson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626165912
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book DC Jazz written by Maurice Jackson and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then by rail into New York before exploding across the globe. That telling of history, however, overlooks the pivotal role the nation's capital has played for jazz for a century. Some of the most important clubs in the jazz world have opened and closed their doors in Washington, DC, some of its greatest players and promoters were born there and continue to reside in the area, and some of the institutions so critical to national support of this uniquely American form of music, including Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress and the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., are rooted in the city. Closer to the ground, a network of local schools like the Duke Ellington High School for the Performing Arts, jazz programs at the University of the District of Columbia and Howard University, churches, informal associations, locally focused media, and clubs keeps the music alive to this day. Noted historians Maurice Jackson and Blair Ruble, editors of this book, present a collection of original and fascinating stories about the DC jazz scene throughout its history, including a portrait of the cultural hotbed of Seventh and U Streets, the role of jazz in desegregating the city, a portrait of the great Edward "Duke" Ellington’s time in DC, notable women in DC jazz, and the seminal contributions of the University of District of Columbia and Howard University to the scene. The book also includes three jazz poems by celebrated Washington, DC, poet E. Ethelbert Miller. Collectively, these stories and poems underscore the deep connection between creativity and place. A copublishing initiative with the Historical Society of Washington, DC, the book includes over thirty museum-quality photographs and a guide to resources for learning more about DC jazz.

Arab Jazz

Author : Karim Miské
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1681446049
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Arab Jazz written by Karim Miské and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kosher sushi, kebab stands, a secondhand bookstore, and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris has all the trappings of a cosmopolitan melting pot--a place where multiethnic citizens live, love, and worship alongside one another. But dark passions are brewing beneath the seemingly idyllic vision of peacefully coexisting ethnicities. Ahmed Taroudant is an archetypal French Arab-non-observant, unable to reconcile his conflicting identities, and troubled by the past. A crime fiction connoisseur, Ahmed is engrossed in his latest book when he finds blood dripping from his upstairs neighbor's apartment. There, Laura Vignole is found brutally murdered, with a joint of pork placed near her body, prompting the obvious conclusion that the killer had religious motives. As the neighborhood erupts into speculation and gossip, Ahmed finds himself first among many suspects. Detectives Rachel Kupferstein and Jean Hamelot attempt to untangle the complex web of events leading up to Laura's death, but truth is hard to come by, with each inhabitant--an Armenian anarchist, a Turkish kebab-shop owner, and a Hasidic Rastafarian--reluctant to reveal anything. Determined to clear his name, Ahmed joins the detectives as they investigate the connection between a disbanded hip-hop group and the fiery extremist preachers clamoring for attention in the streets. Meanwhile, an ecstasy variant called Godzwill is taking the district by storm. In his debut novel, Karim Miské demonstrates a masterful control of setting, as he moves effortlessly between the sensual streets of Paris and the synagogues of New York to reveal the truth behind a horrifying crime.

Blue Nippon

Author : E. Taylor Atkins
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822327219
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Blue Nippon written by E. Taylor Atkins and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blues

Author : William Christopher Handy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Blues written by William Christopher Handy and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Essential Jazz Recordings

Author : Ross Porter
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551992477
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Jazz Recordings written by Ross Porter and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the all-time must-have jazz recordings by a maven of the genre. Possibly the twentieth century’s greatest musical innovation, jazz is now more popular than it has been for the past fifty years. But with the plethora of new recordings and the phenomenon in jazz of the same standards being recorded seemingly by almost every artist and band or trio, it’s very hard to know where to start or to improve a CD collection. The Essential Jazz Recordings provides a trustworthy, concise guide, heavily skewed to Porter’s personal favourites and showcasing Canadian talent where it’s merited. With background information on the music, the artist, and the recording, Porter explains the unique merits of each recording, from Louis Armstrong to Wynton Marsalis, Billie Holiday to Diana Krall. With this guide, dedicated jazz aficionados can ensure a complete collection and novices can expand their knowledge. Both will hugely enjoy the musical riches in The Essential Jazz Recordings.

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.