Norman Granz : the Man Who Used Jazz for Justice.

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"Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that," Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was iconoclastic, independent, immensely influe...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hershorn, Tad
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Temas:
Granz, Norman, > 1918-2001.
Granz, Norman, > 1918-2001
Granz, Norman > 1918-2001
Impresarios > United States > Biography.
Jazz musicians > United States > Biography.
Jazz > History and criticism.
Music > Social aspects > United States.
African American musicians > Biography.
African American musicians > United States.
Civil rights movements > United States > Songs and music.
Musiciens de jazz > États-Unis > Biographies.
Musique > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Musiciens noirs américains > Biographies.
Musiciens noirs américains > États-Unis.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Chants et musique.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Jazz.
African American musicians
Civil rights movements
Impresarios
Jazz
Jazz musicians
Music > Social aspects
Jazz > historia.
Jazz > sociala aspekter.
Jazz > politiska aspekter.
Jazzmusiker.
United States
20th century jazz.
african american jazz.
african american performers.
billie holiday.
ella fitzgerald.
entertainment industry.
history of jazz.
history of music.
influential african americans.
inspiring musicians.
jazz and blues.
jazz at the philharmonic.
jazz biography.
jazz icons.
jazz lovers.
jazz stars.
music and theater.
music lovers.
musician biography.
musician books.
oscar peterson.
overcoming prejudice.
post war jazz.
post wwii.
racial prejudice.
social activist.
social prejudice.
verve records.
world of jazz.
collective biographies.
Songs
Music
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Songs and music
Biographies.
Songs.
Music.
Musique.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Prologue: "I Made Things Work"; 1 "All I Wanted Was My Freedom"; 2 "A Marvelous Crucible"; 3 Cole Train; 4 "The Opener"; 5 Let Freedom Swing; 6 Norman Granz versus . . .; 7 Mambo Jambo; 8 Enter Ella and Oscar; 9 The Continental; 10 "I Feel Most at Home in the Studio"; 11 Starry Nights; 12 "That Tall Old Man Standing Next to Ella Fitzgerald"; 13 The Jazz Hurricane; 14 "The Lost Generation"; 15 Duke, Prez, and Billie; 16 Joie de Verve; 17 Across the Sea; 18 "Musicians Don't Want to Jam"; 19 Picasso on the Beach; 20 "One More Once."
  • 21 Takin' It on Out--for Good22 "Somewhere There's Music"; Epilogue: "My Career, Such As It Is . . ."; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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