Jazz category: 919 books
School for Cool
The Academic Jazz Program and the Paradox of Institutionalized Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in the clubs, and will die—so some fear—at the university. Facing dwindling commercial demand and the gradual disappearance of venues, many aspiring jazz musicians today learn their craft, and find their careers, in one of the many academic programs that now...
Jazz Diplomacy
Promoting America in the Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Jazz as an instrument of global diplomacy transformed superpower relations in the Cold War era and reshaped democracy's image worldwide. Lisa E. Davenport tells the story of America's program of jazz diplomacy practiced in the Soviet Union and other regions of the world from 1954 to 1968. Jazz music...
Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism
Music, "Race," and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Jeremy F. Lane’s Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism is a bold challenge to the existing homogenous picture of the reception of American jazz in world-war era France. Lane’s book closely examines the reception of jazz among French-speaking intellectuals between 1918 and 1945 and is the first study...
Jazz and Postwar French Identity
Improvising the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
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...
Gordon Stretton, Black British Transoceanic Jazz Pioneer
A New Jazz Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
This extensively researched text concerning the life and career of Liverpool-born Black jazz musician Gordon Stretton not only contributes to the important debate concerning the transoceanic pathways of jazz during the 20th century, but also suggests to the jazz fan and scholar alike that such pathways,...
by Elina Hytonen-Ng
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The term 'flow' refers to experiences where the musician moves into a consciousness in which time seems to be suspended and perception of reality is blurred by unconscious forces. An essential part of the jazz tradition, which often serves as the foundation of the musician's identity, flow is recognised...
Spirits Rejoice!
Jazz and American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In Spirits Rejoice! Jason Bivins explores the relationship between American religion and American music, and the places where religion and jazz have overlapped. Much writing about jazz tends toward glorified discographies or impressionistic descriptions of the actual sounds. Rather than providing...
Swingin' on Central Avenue
African American Jazz in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The development of jazz and swing in the African-American community in Los Angeles in the years before the second World War received a boost from the arrival of a significant numbers of musicians from Chicago and the southwestern states. In Swingin’ on Central: African-American Jazz in Los Angeles,...
by Ted Gioia
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
An acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a...
The Penguin Jazz Guide
The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
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...
What Is This Thing Called Jazz?
Insights and Opinions from the Players
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2000
There is no better authority on jazz than the creators, educators, and writers who have made this enigmatic musical style a major force internationally as well as in American history. The answer to the question what is jazz? is as complex and diverse as those involved in it. This book takes the question...
Weather Bird
Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. More then 140 pieces, written over a 14-year period, are brought together for the first time in this superb collection of...
Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album
John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Recorded by his quartet in a single session in 1964, A Love Supreme is widely considered John Coltrane's magnum opus and one of the greatest jazz albums of all time. In Beyond A Love Supreme, Tony Whyton explores both the musical complexities of A Love Supreme and the album's seminal importance in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge,...