Author : Wynton Marsalis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3455111017
Sweet swing blues
Wynton Marsalis
Sweet Swing Blues
Sweet Swing Blues Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Sweet Swing Blues book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Sweet Swing Blues on the Road
Wynton Marsalis,Frank Stewart
Author : Wynton Marsalis,Frank Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1560251557
Sweet Swing Blues on the Road by Wynton Marsalis,Frank Stewart Pdf
A year in the life of the jazz musician and composer includes his views on rap, the road, romance, creativity, politics, culture, and the role of the artist in American society
Cultural Moves
Herman Gray
Author : Herman Gray
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520241442
Cultural Moves by Herman Gray Pdf
"Examines the importance of culture in the push for black political power and social recognition and argues the key black cultural practices have been notable in reconfiguring the shape and texture of social and cultural life in the U.S. Drawing on examples from jazz, television, and academia, Gray highlights cultural strategies for inclusion in the dominant culture as well as cultural tactics that move beyond the quest for mere recognition by challenging, disrupting, and unsettling dominant cultural representations and institutions. In the end, Gray challenges the conventional wisdom about the centrality of representation and politics in black cultural production"--Provided by publisher.
Jazz Books in the 1990s
Janice Leslie Hochstat Greenberg
Author : Janice Leslie Hochstat Greenberg
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810869868
Jazz Books in the 1990s by Janice Leslie Hochstat Greenberg Pdf
This annotated bibliography contains over 700 entries covering adult non-fiction books on jazz published from 1990 through 1999. Entries are organized by category, including biographies, history, individual instruments, essays and criticism, musicology, regional studies, discographies, and reference works. Three indexes—by title, author, and subject—are included.
More Blues Singers
David Dicaire
Author : David Dicaire
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786462421
More Blues Singers by David Dicaire Pdf
The first book by David Dicaire, Blues Singers: Biographies of 50 Legendary Artists of the Early 20th Century, (McFarland, 1999), included pioneers, innovators, superstars, and cult heroes of blues music born before 1940. This second work covers those born after 1940 who have continued the tradition. This work has five sections, each with its own introduction. The first, Modern Acoustic Blues, covers artists that are major players on the acoustic blues scene of recent time, such as John Hammond, Jr. The second, Contemporary Chicago Blues, features artists of amplified, citified, gritty blues (Paul Butterfield and Melvin Taylor, among others). Section three, Modern American Electric Blues, includes some Texas blues singers such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan and examines how the blues have spread throughout the United States. Contemporary Blues Women are in section four. Section five, Blues Around the World, covers artists from four different continents and twelve different countries. Each entry provides biographical and critical information on the artist, and a complete discography. A bibliography and supplemental discographies are also provided.
Is Jazz Dead?
Stuart Nicholson
Author : Stuart Nicholson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136731006
Is Jazz Dead? by Stuart Nicholson Pdf
Is Jazz Dead? examines the state of jazz in America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Musicians themselves are returning to New Orleans, Swing, and Bebop styles, while the work of the '60s avant-garde and even '70s and '80s jazz-rock is roundly ignored. Meanwhile, global jazz musicians are creating new and exciting music that is just starting to be heard in the United States, offering a viable alternative to the rampant conservatism here. Stuart Nicholson's thought-provoking book offers an analysis of the American scene, how it came to be so stagnant, and what it can do to create a new level of creativity. This book is bound to be controversial among jazz purists and musicians; it will undoubtedly generate discussion about how jazz should grow now that it has become a recognized part of American musical history. Is Jazz Dead? dares to ask the question on all jazz fan's minds: Can jazz survive as a living medium? And, if so, how?
Jazz and American Culture
Michael Borshuk
Author : Michael Borshuk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009420198
Jazz and American Culture by Michael Borshuk Pdf
This book explores jazz as a cultural lodestone and source of critical inquiry for over a century.
Making the Scene
Alexander Stewart
Author : Alexander Stewart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520940161
Making the Scene by Alexander Stewart Pdf
The received wisdom of popular jazz history is that the era of the big band was the 1930s and '40s, when swing was at its height. But as practicing jazz musicians know, even though big bands lost the spotlight once the bebop era began, they never really disappeared. Making the Scene challenges conventional jazz historiography by demonstrating the vital role of big bands in the ongoing development of jazz. Alex Stewart describes how jazz musicians have found big bands valuable. He explores the rich "rehearsal band" scene in New York and the rise of repertory orchestras. Making the Scene combines historical research, ethnography, and participant observation with musical analysis, ethnic studies, and gender theory, dismantling stereotypical views of the big band.
The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans
Susan Larson
Author : Susan Larson
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807124168
The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans by Susan Larson Pdf
The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans is Susan Larson's delightfully informative response to questions most frequently asked her as book editor of the Times-Picayune. Tourists and locals alike want to know what to read, where authors lived, which bookstores to browse, and when literary festivals are scheduled. Now all the answers can be found in this one convenient volume, the only complete directory of New Orleans's "write life" available. Whether you are passing through the Big Easy, residing there, or longing to visit, these pages will heighten your experience of one of the most intoxicating places on the planet, taking you into countless nooks and crannies along its storied streets. Book jacket.
What Is This Thing Called Jazz?
Eric Porter
Author : Eric Porter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520232969
What Is This Thing Called Jazz? by Eric Porter Pdf
An intellectual history of jazz traces its evolution through the words of the artists themselves, examining how the musicians actively shaped the institutional structure through which the music is created, distributed, and consumed. Simultaneous.
Southern Music/American Music
Bill C. Malone,David Stricklin
Author : Bill C. Malone,David Stricklin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780813184340
Southern Music/American Music by Bill C. Malone,David Stricklin Pdf
The South—an inspiration for songwriters, a source of styles, and the birthplace of many of the nation's greatest musicians—plays a defining role in American musical history. It is impossible to think of American music of the past century without such southern-derived forms as ragtime, jazz, blues, country, bluegrass, gospel, rhythm and blues, Cajun, zydeco, Tejano, rock'n'roll, and even rap. Musicians and listeners around the world have made these vibrant styles their own. Southern Music/American Music is the first book to investigate the facets of American music from the South and the many popular forms that emerged from it. In this substantially revised and updated edition, Bill C. Malone and David Stricklin bring this classic work into the twenty-first century, including new material on recent phenomena such as the huge success of the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the renewed popularity of Southern music, as well as important new artists Lucinda Williams, Alejandro Escovedo, and the Dixie Chicks, among others. Extensive bibliographic notes and a new suggested listening guide complete this essential study.
Music in the USA
Judith Tick
Author : Judith Tick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195139884
Music in the USA by Judith Tick Pdf
Presents a compilation of primary source materials on American music, from 1540-2000, including some facsimiles.
African American Lives
Henry Louis Gates,Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Author : Henry Louis Gates,Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195160246
African American Lives by Henry Louis Gates,Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Pdf
In the long-awaited successor to the "Dictionary of American Negro Biography," the authors illuminate history through the immediacy of individual experience, with authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans.
Jazz Makers
Alyn Shipton
Author : Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780199761302
Jazz Makers by Alyn Shipton Pdf
Jazz Makers gathers together short biographies of more than 50 of jazz's greatest stars, from its early beginnings to the present. The stories of these innovative instrumentalists, bandleaders, and composers reveal the fascinating history of jazz in six parts: * The Pioneers, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Bessie Smith * Swing Bands and Soloists, with Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday * The Piano Giants, featuring Fats Waller, Art Tatum, and Mary Lou Williams * Birth of Bebop, including Dizzy Gillepsie, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis * Cool Jazz, Hard Bop, and Fusion, with John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Stan Getz * A Century of Jazz, featuring Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman, and other contemporary greats.
The Hip Hop Movement
Reiland Rabaka
Author : Reiland Rabaka
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739181171
The Hip Hop Movement by Reiland Rabaka Pdf
The Hip Hop Movement offers a critical theory and alternative history of rap music and hip hop culture by examining their roots in the popular musics and popular cultures of the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement. Connecting classic rhythm & blues and rock & roll to the Civil Rights Movement, and classic soul and funk to the Black Power Movement, The Hip Hop Movement explores what each of these musics and movements contributed to rap, neo-soul, hip hop culture, and the broader Hip Hop Movement. Ultimately, this book’s remixes (as opposed to chapters) reveal that black popular music and black popular culture have always been more than merely “popular music” and “popular culture” in the conventional sense and reflect a broader social, political, and cultural movement. With this in mind, sociologist and musicologist Reiland Rabaka critically reinterprets rap and neo-soul as popular expressions of the politics, social visions, and cultural values of a contemporary multi-issue movement: the Hip Hop Movement. Rabaka argues that rap music, hip hop culture, and the Hip Hop Movement are as deserving of critical scholarly inquiry as previous black popular musics, such as the spirituals, blues, ragtime, jazz, rhythm & blues, rock & roll, soul, and funk, and previous black popular movements, such as the Black Women’s Club Movement, New Negro Movement, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement, Black Arts Movement, and Black Women’s Liberation Movement. This volume, equal parts alternative history of hip hop and critical theory of hip hop, challenges those scholars, critics, and fans of hip hop who lopsidedly over-focus on commercial rap, pop rap, and gangsta rap while failing to acknowledge that there are more than three dozen genres of rap music and many other socially and politically progressive forms of hip hop culture beyond DJing, MCing, rapping, beat-making, break-dancing, and graffiti-writing.