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Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Directory of Recorded Jazz and Swing Music: J-Kirk
More Important Than the Music
Author: Bruce D. Epperson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022606767X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Today, jazz is considered high art, America’s national music, and the catalog of its recordings—its discography—is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and when. This history gets its first full-length treatment in Bruce D. Epperson’s More Important Than the Music. Following the dedicated few who sought to keep jazz’s legacy organized, Epperson tells a fascinating story of archival pursuit in the face of negligence and deception, a tale that saw curses and threats regularly employed, with fisticuffs and lawsuits only slightly rarer. Epperson examines the documentation of recorded jazz from its casual origins as a novelty in the 1920s and ’30s, through the overwhelming deluge of 12-inch vinyl records in the middle of the twentieth century, to the use of computers by today’s discographers. Though he focuses much of his attention on comprehensive discographies, he also examines the development of a variety of related listings, such as buyer’s guides and library catalogs, and he closes with a look toward discography’s future. From the little black book to the full-featured online database, More Important Than the Music offers a history not just of jazz discography but of the profoundly human desire to preserve history itself.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022606767X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Today, jazz is considered high art, America’s national music, and the catalog of its recordings—its discography—is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and when. This history gets its first full-length treatment in Bruce D. Epperson’s More Important Than the Music. Following the dedicated few who sought to keep jazz’s legacy organized, Epperson tells a fascinating story of archival pursuit in the face of negligence and deception, a tale that saw curses and threats regularly employed, with fisticuffs and lawsuits only slightly rarer. Epperson examines the documentation of recorded jazz from its casual origins as a novelty in the 1920s and ’30s, through the overwhelming deluge of 12-inch vinyl records in the middle of the twentieth century, to the use of computers by today’s discographers. Though he focuses much of his attention on comprehensive discographies, he also examines the development of a variety of related listings, such as buyer’s guides and library catalogs, and he closes with a look toward discography’s future. From the little black book to the full-featured online database, More Important Than the Music offers a history not just of jazz discography but of the profoundly human desire to preserve history itself.
The Discophile
International Jazz Bibliography
Author: Carl Gregor (Duke of Mecklenburg.)
Publisher: Strasbourg [France] : P. H. Heitz
ISBN:
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher: Strasbourg [France] : P. H. Heitz
ISBN:
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Jazz Monthly
International Bibliography of Jazz Books: 1950-1959
Author: Carl Gregor (Duke of Mecklenburg.)
Publisher:
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Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
IAJRC Journal
Author: International Association of Jazz Record Collectors
Publisher:
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Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Jazz-Bibliographie
Author: Bernhard Hefele
Publisher: München : Saur
ISBN:
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: München : Saur
ISBN:
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The British National Bibliography Cumulated Subject Catalogue
Author:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1594
Book Description