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Blowin' hot and cool : jazz and its critics /

In the illustrious and richly documented history of American jazz, no figure has been more controversial than the jazz critic. Jazz critics can be revered or reviled--often both--but they should not be ignored. And while the tradition of jazz has been covered from seemingly every angle, nobody has e...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gennari, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : (much more than) a few words about jazz
  • Not only a new art form but a new reason for living
  • As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm : hot collecting
  • Across the color line
  • Hearing 'the noisy lostness' : telling the story of jazz
  • Writer's writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism
  • Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport
  • The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism
  • Race-ing the bird : Ross Russell's obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker
  • Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents
  • Conclusion : change of the century.