Description |
1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
American made music series
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American made music series.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-235) and index. |
Contents |
The formation of the jazz image in visual culture -- The construction of signs in jazz photography -- Ceci n'est pas jazz : the battle for ownership -- A "style portrait" of the avant-garde -- The visual image of jazz -- Appendix A : Herman Leonard timeline 1923 to 2006 -- Appendix B : List of exhibitions for Herman Leonard's photography. |
Summary |
Typically, a photograph of a jazz musician has several formal pre-requisites: black and white film, an urban setting in the mid-twentieth century, and a black man standing, playing, or sitting next to his instrument. This book reveals how such a steadfast script developed visually and what this convention meant for the music. Herman Leonard's photographic depictions of African American jazz musicians in New York not only created a visual template of a black musician of the 1950s, but also became the standard configuration of the music's neo-classical sound today. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Leonard, Herman, 1923-2010.
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Leonard, Herman, 1923-2010. |
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Jazz musicians -- Portraits.
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Jazz musicians. |
Genre/Form |
Portraits.
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Subject |
Jazz -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1941-1950 -- History and criticism.
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Jazz. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
Chronological Term |
1941-1950 |
Subject |
Jazz -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1951-1960 -- History and criticism.
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Chronological Term |
1951-1960 |
Subject |
Portrait photography -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Portrait photography. |
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- General. |
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Jazz. |
Chronological Term |
1941-1960 |
Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Portraits.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Pinson, K. Heather. Jazz image. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2010 9781604734942 (DLC) 2009052114 (OCoLC)466361476 |
ISBN |
9781604734959 (electronic book) |
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1604734957 (electronic book) |
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9781604734942 |
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1604734949 |
Standard No. |
9786612700347 |
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