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Jazz cultures /

From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities have shaped over...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ake, David Andrew, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Blue horizon" : Creole culture and early New Orleans jazz
  • Jazz historiography and the problem of Louis Jordan
  • Regendering jazz : Ornette Coleman and the New York scene in the late 1950s
  • Body and soul : performing deep jazz
  • Jazz 'traning : John Coltrane and the conservatory
  • Jazz traditioning : setting standards at century's close.