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Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II
Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title
In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I. This second volume amplifies how musicians influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop in Africa from the...
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I
The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title
In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself and how jazz has been defined...
by Philippe Carles, Jean-Louis Comolli
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism....
Scoring Race
Jazz, Fiction, and Francophone Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
What are the cultural implications of Louis Armstrong's 1960 visit to Africa? Why are so many postcolonial novels in French fascinated with jazz? In defining jazz as "black music", France's "jazzophilia" has had wide-reaching effects on contemporary perceptions of the artistic...
by John Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2016
Improvisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they’re even suspicious of it. John Coltrane’s saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix’s feedback drenched guitar solos, Ravi Shankar’s sitar extrapolations—all these sounds seem like so much noodling or jamming, indulgent self-expression. “Just”...
by Stephen Rush
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman discusses Ornette Coleman’s musical philosophy of "Harmolodics," an improvisational system deeply inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. Falling under the guise of "free jazz," Harmolodics can be difficult to understand, even for seasoned...
Music and the Creative Spirit
Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation, and the Avant Garde
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Like most ground-breaking art forms, contemporary creative music is rarely understood or accepted in its own time, and for those reasons, can largely go unheard. Music and the Creative Spirit: Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation, and the Avant Garde aims to give today's brightest music innovators due...
Blutopia
Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2000
In Blutopia Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Providing an alternative to previous analyses of their work, Lock shows how these distinctive artists were each influenced by a common musical and spiritual...
by Paul Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
How well do you know your Motown Music? This Quiz book will test even the most avid fan, with questions that span Motown's bands and songs! Test yourself and your friends with this Motown Music Quiz Book.
Keep A Knockin'
The Story of a Legendary Drummer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
This book is loaded with untold stories about drummer Charles Connor and his road into Rock 'n' Roll history. Playing with legends like Roy “Professor Longhair” Byrd, Smiley Lewis, Guitar Slim, Jack Dupree then Shirley and Lee was just his launch pad before touring everywhere with Little Richard...
The Bbsat's Level Ii : Baby Boomers Soul Aptitude Test
Baby Boomers Soul Aptitude Test
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
OK, break out your microphones (or hair brushes) and start singing to these test and quizzes. For this second level of the test we have included 100 main questions, over twenty smaller quizzes, that are broken into categories like ; songs about time, songs with the word funk in the title, songs about...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
You've seen the movie, now get the rest of the story.This book is about the music.James Brown has had more of an influence on the music we listen to today than almost anyone else. He grew up in abject poverty, a black man in the post-depression south. His chances of making it in...
by Rufus Curry, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Fiction / Romance / Adult Caught in the crossfire between justification and knowing, Chapman Sweet, Jr. works to untangle the present mess he finds his life in. Surrounded by a smorgasbord of feminine opportunities and advisors, the leader of the Chapman Sweet Band stands in the middle of the crossroads...
Soul Music
Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
"Exceptionally illuminating and philosophically sophisticated."
---Ted Cohen, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
"In this audacious and long-awaited book, Joel Rudinow takes seriously a range of interrelated issues that most music theorizing is embarrassed to tackle....