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Author Porter, Eric (Eric C.)

Title What is this thing called jazz? : African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists / Eric Porter.

Publication Info. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2002]
©2002
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 404 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Music of the African diaspora ; 6
Music of the African diaspora ; 6.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-382) and index.
Contents A marvel of paradox : jazz and African American modernity -- Dizzy atmosphere : the challenge of bebop -- Passions of a man : the poetics and politics of Charles Mingus -- Straight ahead : Abbey Lincoln and the challenge of jazz singing -- Practicing "creative music" : the black arts imperative in the jazz community -- Writing "creative music" : theorizing the art and politics of improvisation -- The majesty of the blues : Wynton Marsalis's jazz canon.
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Subject Jazz -- History and criticism.
Jazz.
African American jazz musicians.
African American jazz musicians.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Porter, Eric (Eric C.). What is this thing called jazz?. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2002 0520218728 0520232968 (DLC) 2001044408 (OCoLC)48153567
ISBN 9780520928404 (electronic book)
0520928407 (electronic book)
1597349976 (electronic book)
9781597349970 (electronic book)
0585466459 (electronic book)
9780585466453 (electronic book)
9780520218727 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520218728 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520232969 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520232968 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520218728 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520232968 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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