| Description |
1 online resource (326 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-308) and index. |
| Contents |
The inevitability of jazz in America -- The rise of individualism and the jazz solo -- Going it alone -- Hot rhythm -- The embrace of show business -- Art and the academy -- Jazz and pop -- Black, white, and blue -- The critics -- Local jazz. |
| Summary |
Praised by the Washington Post as a 'tough, unblinkered critic, ' James Lincoln Collier is probably the most controversial writer on jazz today. His acclaimed biographies of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman continue to spark debate in jazz circles, and his iconoclastic articles on jazz over the past 30 years have attracted even more attention.; Questioning everything we think we know about jazz - its origins, its innovative geniuses, the importance of improvisation and spontaneous inspiration in a performance- - and the jazz world, these ten provocative essays on the music and its place in American culture overturn tired assumptions and will alternately enrage, enlighten, and entertain. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jazz -- History and criticism.
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Jazz. |
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Music -- Social aspects.
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Music -- Social aspects. |
| Indexed Term |
Jazz |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Collier, James Lincoln, 1928- Jazz. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 (DLC) 92043644 |
| ISBN |
1429406038 (electronic book) |
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9781429406031 (electronic book) |
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1280528028 |
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9781280528026 |
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0195096355 (Paper) |
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0195079434 (acid-free paper) |
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9780195079432 (acid-free paper) |
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9780195096354 |
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