Author: Joe MorrisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780985981006
Category : Improvisation (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Perpetual Frontier
Author: Joe MorrisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780985981006
Category : Improvisation (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Charlie Parker
Author: Carl WoideckPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472037897
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Saxophonist Charlie Parker (1920-1955) was one of the most innovative and influential jazz musicians of any era. As one of the architects of modern jazz (often called "bebop"), Charlie Parker has had a profound effect on American music. His music reached such a high level of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic sophistication that saxophonists and other instrumentalists continue to study it as both a technical challenge and an aesthetic inspiration. This revised edition of Charlie Parker: His Music and Life has been revised throughout to account for new Charlie Parker scholarship and previously unknown Parker recordings that have emerged since the book’s initial publication. The volume opens by considering current research on Parker’s biography, laying out some of the contradictory accounts of his life, and setting the chronology straight where possible. It then focuses on Parker’s music, tracing his artistic evolution and major achievements as a jazz improviser. The musical discussions and transcribed musical examples include timecodes for easy location in recordings—a unique feature to this book.
Frontiers of Jazz
Author: Ralph de ToledanoPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455604678
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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The History of Jazz
Author: Ted GioiaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195399706
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
A panoramic history of the genre brings to life the diverse places in which jazz evolved, traces the origins of its various styles, and offers commentary on the music itself.
The Story of Jazz
Author: Marshall Winslow StearnsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195012699
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The first and most renowned history of the evolution of the unique American musical phenomenon called jazz, The Story of Jazz follows the course of jazz from the union of the black African musical heritage with European forms and its birth in New Orleans, through the era of swing and bop, to the beginnings of rock in the '50s.
Queering Kansas City Jazz
Author: Amber R. Clifford-NapoleonePublisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803262914
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though Kansas City’s music, culture, and stars are well covered, Queering Kansas City Jazz supplements the grand narrative of jazz history by including queer identities in the city’s history while framing the jazz-scene experience in terms of identity and space. Cabarets, gender impressionism clubs, and sites of sex tourism in Kansas City served as world-making spaces for those whose performance of identity transgressed hegemonic notions of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide a critical deconstruction of how the jazz scene offered a space for nonnormative gender practice and performance and acted as a site of contested identity and spatial territory. Few books examine the changing ideas about gender in the turn-of-the-century Great Plains, under the false assumption that people in middle-American places experienced cultural shifts only as an aftershock of events on the coasts. This approach overlooks the region’s contested territories, identities, and memories and fails to adequately explain the social and cultural disruptions experienced on the plains. Clifford-Napoleone rectifies this oversight and shows how Kansas City represents the complexity of the jazz scene in America as a microcosm of all the other people who made the culture, clubs, music, and cabarets of the age possible.
The Record Changer
Author: Opportunity
Author: Paris Blues
Author: Andy FryPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022613895X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as much of a Paris phenomenon as it was a Chicago and New York scene. In Paris Blues, Andy Fry provides an alternative history of African American music and musicians in France, one that looks beyond familiar personalities and well-rehearsed stories. He pinpoints key issues of race and nation in France’s complicated jazz history from the 1920s through the 1950s. While he deals with many of the traditional icons—such as Josephine Baker, Django Reinhardt, and Sidney Bechet, among others—what he asks is how they came to be so iconic, and what their stories hide as well as what they preserve. Fry focuses throughout on early jazz and swing but includes its re-creation—reinvention—in the 1950s. Along the way, he pays tribute to forgotten traditions such as black musical theater, white show bands, and French wartime swing. Paris Blues provides a nuanced account of the French reception of African Americans and their music and contributes greatly to a growing literature on jazz, race, and nation in France.
Blue Nippon
Author: E. Taylor AtkinsPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822327219
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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