| Description |
xiv, 450 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-438) and index. |
| Contents |
First accounts. Sidney Bechet's musical philosophy ; "Whence comes jass?" / Walter Kingsley ; The location of "jass" / New Orleans Times-Picayune ; A "serious" musician takes jazz seriously / Ernest Ansermet ; "A Negro explains 'jazz'" / James Reese Europe ; "Jazzing away prejudice" / Chicago Defender ; The "inventor of jazz" / Jelly Roll Morton -- The twenties. Jazzing around the globe / Burnet Hershey ; "Does jazz put the sin in syncopation?" / Anne Shaw Faulkner ; Jazz and African music / Nicholas G. J. Ballanta-Taylor ; The man who made a lady out of jazz (Paul Whiteman) / Hugh C. Ernst ; "The jazz problem" / The Etude ; "The Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes ; A Black journalist criticizes jazz / Dave Peyton ; "The Caucasian storms Harlem" / Rudolf Fisher ; The appeal of jazz explained / R. W. S. Mendl -- The thirties. What is swing? / Louis Armstrong ; Looking back at "The jazz age" / Alain Locke ; Don Redman : portrait of a bandleader / Roi Ottley ; Defining "hot jazz" / Robert Goffin ; An experience in jazz history / John Hammond ; On the road with Count Basie / Billie Holiday ; Jazz at Carnegie Hall / James Dugan and John Hammond ; Duke Ellington explains swing ; Jazz and gender during the war years / Down Beat -- The forties. "Red music" / Josef Škvorecký ; "From somewhere in France" / Charles Delauney ; Johnny Otis remembers Lester Young ; "A people's music" / Sidney Finkelstein ; "Bop is nowhere" / D. Leon Wolff, Louis Armstrong ; "The cult of bebop" / Dizzy Gillespie ; "The golden age, time past" / Ralph Ellison ; The professional dance musician and his audience / Howard S. Becker -- The fifties. Jazz in the classroom / Marshall W. Stearns ; A jazz "masterpiece" / André Hodeir ; "Sonny Rollins and the challenge of thematic improvisation" / Gunther Schuller ; "Beneath the underdog" / Charles Mingus ; Psychoanalyzing jazz / Miles D. Miller ; An appeal to the Vatican ; America's "secret sonic weapon" ; "The white Negro" / Norman Mailer ; Louis Armstrong on music and politics -- The sixties. Critical reception of Free Jazz ; "Jazz and the White critic" / LeRoi Jones ; A jazz summit meeting / Playboy -- The seventies. Oral culture and musical tradition / Ben Sidran ; Jazz as a progressive social force / Leonard Feather ; Beyond categories / Max Roach ; The musician's heroic craft / Albert Murray ; Creative music and the AACM / Leo Smith -- The eighties. "America's classical music" / Billy Taylor ; "A rare national treasure" / U.S. Congress ; The neoclassical agenda / Wynton Marsalis ; Soul, craft, and cultural hierarchy / Wynton Marsalis and Herbie Hancock ; "'It jus' be's dat way sometime' : the sexual politics of women's blues" / Hazel V. Carby ; Miles Davis speaks his mind ; A music of survival and celebration / Christopher Small -- The nineties. Who listens to jazz? ; Free Jazz revisited ; Ring Shout, Signifyin(g), and jazz analysis / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. ; Ferociously harmonizing with reality / Keith Jarrett ; Constructing the jazz tradition / Scott DeVeaux. |
| Subject |
Jazz -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Walser, Robert.
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| ISBN |
0195091728 (cloth) |
|
9780195091724 (cloth) |
|
0195091736 (paper) |
|
9780195091731 (paper) |
| OCLC # |
38168235 |
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