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Representing Jazz /

Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players. But jazz has also entered the cultural mix through its significant impact on novelists, filmmakers, dancers, painters, biographers, and...

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Otros Autores: Gabbard, Krin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : writing the other history / Krin Gabbard
  • Jammin' the blues, or the sight of jazz, 1944 / Arthur Knight
  • Improvising and mythmaking in Eudora Welty's "Powerhouse" / Leland H. Chambers
  • Fabulating jazz / Frederick Garber
  • Signifyin(g) the phallus : Mo' better blues and representations of the jazz trumpet / Krin Gabbard
  • Jazz autobiography : theory, practice, politics / Christopher Harlos
  • Uptown folk : blackness and entertainment in Cabin in the sky / James Naremore
  • Doubling, music, and race in Cabin in the sky / Adam Knee
  • Divine frivolity : Hollywood representations of the Lindy Hop, 1937-1942 / Robert P. Crease
  • Keeping the spirit alive : the jazz dance testament of Mura Dehn / Karen Backstein
  • Jazz and the New York School / Mona Hadler
  • The tenor's vehicle : reading Way out West / Michael Jarrett
  • Purple passages of fiestas in blue? Notes toward an aesthetic of vocalese / Barry Keith Grant.