Gypsy jazz : in search of Django Reinhardt and the soul of gypsy swing /
Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And there is no one more qualified to write about Gypsy Jazz than Michael Dregni, author of the acclaimed biography, Django....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And there is no one more qualified to write about Gypsy Jazz than Michael Dregni, author of the acclaimed biography, Django. A vagabond music, Gypsy Jazz is played today in French Gypsy bars, Romany encampments, on religious pilgrimages--and increasingly on the world's greatest concert stages. Yet its story has never been told, in part because much of its history is undocumented, either in written form or often even in re. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317), discography (p. 303-308) , and index. |
ISBN: | 9780198042624 0198042620 0195311922 9780195311921 1281341983 9781281341983 |