Jazzwomen

Author : James Reddan,Monika Herzig,Michael Kahr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000591514

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The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender by James Reddan,Monika Herzig,Michael Kahr Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender identifies, defines, and interrogates the construct of gender in all forms of jazz, jazz culture, and education, shaping and transforming the conversation in response to changing cultural and societal norms across the globe. Such interrogation requires consideration of gender from multiple viewpoints, from scholars and artists at various points in their careers. This edited collection of 38 essays gathers the diverse perspectives of contributors from four continents, exploring the nuanced (and at times controversial) construct of gender as it relates to jazz music, in the past and present, in four parts: Historical Perspectives Identity and Culture Society and Education Policy and Advocacy Acknowledging the art form’s troubled relationship with gender, contributors seek to define the construct to include all possible definitions—not only female and male—without binary limitations, contextualizing gender and jazz in both place and time. As gender identity becomes an increasingly important consideration in both education and scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender provides a broad and inclusive resource of research for the academic community, addressing an urgent need to reconcile the construct of gender in jazz in all its forms.

Author : Tammy L. Kernodle,Horace Maxile,Emmett G. Price III
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313342004

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Encyclopedia of African American Music [3 volumes] by Tammy L. Kernodle,Horace Maxile,Emmett G. Price III Pdf

African Americans' historical roots are encapsulated in the lyrics, melodies, and rhythms of their music. In the 18th and 19th centuries, African slaves, longing for emancipation, expressed their hopes and dreams through spirituals. Inspired by African civilization and culture, as well as religion, art, literature, and social issues, this influential, joyous, tragic, uplifting, challenging, and enduring music evolved into many diverse genres, including jazz, blues, rock and roll, soul, swing, and hip hop. Providing a lyrical history of our nation, this groundbreaking encyclopedia, the first of its kind, showcases all facets of African American music including folk, religious, concert and popular styles. Over 500 in-depth entries by more than 100 scholars on a vast range of topics such as genres, styles, individuals, groups, and collectives as well as historical topics such as music of the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and numerous others. Offering balanced representation of key individuals, groups, and ensembles associated with diverse religious beliefs, political affiliations, and other perspectives not usually approached, this indispensable reference illuminates the profound role that African American music has played in American cultural history. Editors Price, Kernodle, and Maxile provide balanced representation of various individuals, groups and ensembles associated with diverse religious beliefs, political affiliations, and perspectives. Also highlighted are the major record labels, institutions of higher learning, and various cultural venues that have had a tremendous impact on the development and preservation of African American music. Among the featured: Motown Records, Black Swan Records, Fisk University, Gospel Music Workshop of America, The Cotton Club, Center for Black Music Research, and more. With a broad scope, substantial entries, current coverage, and special attention to historical, political, and social contexts, this encyclopedia is designed specifically for high school and undergraduate students. Academic and public libraries will treasure this resource as an incomparable guide to our nation's African American heritage.

Author : Kristin A. McGee
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819569677

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Some Liked It Hot by Kristin A. McGee Pdf

Women have been involved with jazz since its inception, but all too often their achievements were not as well known as those of their male counterparts. Some Liked It Hot looks at all-girl bands and jazz women from the 1920s through the 1950s and how they fit into the nascent mass culture, particularly film and television, to uncover some of the historical motivations for excluding women from the now firmly established jazz canon. This well-illustrated book chronicles who appeared where and when in over 80 performances, captured in both popular Hollywood productions and in relatively unknown films and television shows. As McGee shows, these performances reflected complex racial attitudes emerging in American culture during the first half of the twentieth century. Her analysis illuminates the heavily mediated representational strategies that jazz women adopted, highlighting the role that race played in constituting public performances of various styles of jazz from “swing” to “hot” and “sweet.” The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Hazel Scott, the Ingenues, Peggy Lee, and Paul Whiteman are just a few of the performers covered in the book, which also includes a detailed filmography.

Author : Wayne Enstice,Janis Stockhouse
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253344366

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Jazzwomen by Wayne Enstice,Janis Stockhouse Pdf

Offers interviews of twenty-one women who are respected in the male-dominated world of jazz, including pianist Marilyn Crispell and singer-pianist Diana Krall.

Author : Sally Placksin
Publisher : Penguin Adult HC/TR
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106016748730

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American Women in Jazz by Sally Placksin Pdf

Here, for the first time, is the rich and diverse history of women jazz musicians, from rural tent shows and local dance halls to urban theaters and the vaudeville stage, from the steamboats of St. Louis to wartime army bases, from big bands and small combos to the yearly Women's Jazz Festival in Kansas City and New York's Salute to Women in Jazz. Based on three years of extensive research and nearly seventy-five personal interviews, American Women in Jazz presents profiles of over sixty women, set in the context of the musical and social history of the times, many of whom have never before had a chance to tell their story or to speak as honestly, completely, and with such feeling as they do now.

Author : Aaron Lefkovitz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781498567527

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Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis by Aaron Lefkovitz Pdf

This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.

Author : Linda Dahl
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : 0879101288

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Stormy Weather by Linda Dahl Pdf

Traces the impact of women on the development of jazz and profiles the careers of influential female jazz musicians and singers

Author : Wayne Enstice,Janis Stockhouse
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253010582

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Jazzwomen Speak by Wayne Enstice,Janis Stockhouse Pdf

A woman in jazz. How was she treated on- and offstage? What was it like to play with Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker? What was the breakthrough moment in her career? How did she balance her personal and professional life? In six illuminating interviews, female jazz musicians answer these questions and more, discussing the challenges of being a woman in a scene historically dominated by men. Jazzwomen Speak gathers the voices of women whose careers highlight the bebop and post-bop era of jazz, as they share stories of their musical training and entrance into the jazz world, relationships and encounters with other musicians, limitations on the bandstand and in the recording studio, and how being a female musician has formed their musical performances over time.

Author : Elizabeth Vihlen McGregor
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781498528771

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Jazz and Postwar French Identity by Elizabeth Vihlen McGregor Pdf

In the context of a shifting domestic and international status quo that was evolving in the decades following World War II, French audiences used jazz as a means of negotiating a wide range of issues that were pressing to them and to their fellow citizens. Despite the fact that jazz was fundamentally linked to the multicultural through its origins in the hands of African-American musicians, happenings within the French jazz public reflected much about France’s postwar society. In the minds of many, jazz was connected to youth culture, but instead of challenging traditional gender expectations, the music tended to reinforce long-held stereotypes. French critics, musicians, and fans contended with the reality of American superpower strength and often strove to elevate their own country’s stature in relation to the United States by finding fault with American consumer society and foreign policy aims. Jazz audiences used this music to condemn American racism and to support the American civil rights movement, expressing strong reservations about the American way of life. French musicians lobbied to create professional opportunities for themselves, and some went so far as to create a union that endorsed preferential treatment for French nationals. As France became more ethnically and religiously diverse due immigration from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, French jazz critics and fans noted the insidious appearance of racism in their own country and had to contend with how their own citizens would address the changing demographics of the nation, even if they continued to insist that racism was more prevalent in the United States. As independence movements brought an end to the French empire, jazz enthusiasts from both former colonies and France had to reenvision their relationship to jazz and to the music’s international audiences. In these postwar decades, the French were working to preserve a distinct national identity in the face of weakened global authority, most forcefully represented by decolonization and American hegemony. Through this originally African American music, French listeners, commentators, and musicians participated in a process that both challenged and reinforced ideas about their own culture and nation.

Author : Daniel Fischlin,Ajay Heble
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819566829

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The Other Side of Nowhere by Daniel Fischlin,Ajay Heble Pdf

Scholars, composers and performers write about the art of jazz improvisation.

Author : Paul Atkinson,Sara Delamont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Discourse analysis, Narrative
ISBN : NWU:35556038046058

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Narrative Methods: Performance and performativity by Paul Atkinson,Sara Delamont Pdf

This collection adopts an inclusive approach to reflect the current diversity of perspectives across the different social sciences.

Author : Sherrie Tucker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822380900

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Swing Shift by Sherrie Tucker Pdf

The forgotten history of the “all-girl” big bands of the World War II era takes center stage in Sherrie Tucker’s Swing Shift. American demand for swing skyrocketed with the onslaught of war as millions—isolated from loved ones—sought diversion, comfort, and social contact through music and dance. Although all-female jazz and dance bands had existed since the 1920s, now hundreds of such groups, both African American and white, barnstormed ballrooms, theaters, dance halls, military installations, and makeshift USO stages on the home front and abroad. Filled with firsthand accounts of more than a hundred women who performed during this era and complemented by thorough—and eye-opening—archival research, Swing Shift not only offers a history of this significant aspect of American society and culture but also examines how and why whole bands of dedicated and talented women musicians were dropped from—or never inducted into—our national memory. Tucker’s nuanced presentation reveals who these remarkable women were, where and when they began to play music, and how they navigated a sometimes wild and bumpy road—including their experiences with gas and rubber rationing, travel restrictions designed to prioritize transportation for military needs, and Jim Crow laws and other prejudices. She explains how the expanded opportunities brought by the war, along with sudden increased publicity, created the illusion that all female musicians—no matter how experienced or talented—were “Swing Shift Maisies,” 1940s slang for the substitutes for the “real” workers (or musicians) who were away in combat. Comparing the working conditions and public representations of women musicians with figures such as Rosie the Riveter, WACs, USO hostesses, pin-ups, and movie stars, Tucker chronicles the careers of such bands as the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Phil Spitalny’s Hours of Charm, The Darlings of Rhythm, and the Sharon Rogers All-Girl Band.

Author : Alex Stewart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520249534

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Making the Scene by Alex Stewart Pdf

Challenges conventional jazz historiography by demonstrating the role of big bands in the development of jazz. This book describes how jazz musicians found big bands valuable. It explores the rehearsal band scene in New York and rise of orchestras. It combines historical research, ethnography, and participant observation with musical analysis.

Author : Catherine Loeb,Susan E. Searing
Publisher : Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015013332146

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Women's Studies by Catherine Loeb,Susan E. Searing Pdf

Author : Leonard Lewis Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195328929

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John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom by Leonard Lewis Brown Pdf

John Coltrane's unique and powerful saxophonic sound is commonly recognized among jazz scholars and fans alike as having a "spiritual" nature, imbued with the perfomer's soul, which deeply touches musicians and listeners worldwide. This revered and respected musician created new standards, linked tradition with innovation, challenged common assumptions, and relentlessly pursued spiritual goals in his music, which he aimed openly to use as a means to help listeners see the beauty of life. More than four decades after Coltrane's death, it is this spiritual nature of the music that has kept his sound alive - and thriving - on the contemporary jazz scene. Edited by prominent jazz musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom is a timely exploration of Coltrane's sound and its spiritual qualities as they relate to Black American music culture and aspirations for freedom. A wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews featuring many of the most eminent figures in jazz studies and performance--Tommy Lee Lott, Anthony Brown, Herman Gray, Emmett G. Price III, Dwight Andrews, Tammy Kernodle, Salim Washington, Eric Jackson, and TJ Anderson (foreword)-- the book examines the full spectrum of Coltrane's legacy. Each essay approaches this theme from a different angle, in both historical and contemporary contexts, focusing on how Coltrane became a quintessential example of the universal and enduring qualities of Black American culture. The contributors address Coltrane as the Black intellectual, the visionary master of musical syntax, the man and the media icon, and ultimately the symbol of the spiritual core of Black American music.