ISBN:
9780226289229
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (495 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Blowin' Hot and Cool : Jazz and Its Critics
DDC:
306.4/8425
Keywords:
Jazz ; History and criticism
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Jazz ; Social aspects ; United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In the illustrious and richly documented history of American jazz, no figure has been more controversial than the jazz critic. Jazz critics can be revered or reviled-often both-but they should not be ignored. And while the tradition of jazz has been covered from seemingly every angle, nobody has ever turned the pen back on itself to chronicle the many writers who have helped define how we listen to and how we understand jazz. That is, of course, until now.In Blowin' Hot and Cool, John Gennari provides a definitive history of jazz criticism from the 1920s to the present. The
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: (Much More than) a Few Words about Jazz; Chapter 1: "Not Only a New Art Form but a New Reason for Living''; Chapter 2: "As If It Were Artistic and Not Just a Teenage Enthusiasm'': Hot Collecting across the Color Line; Chapter 3: Hearing the "Noisy Lostness': 'Telling the Story of Jazz; Chapter 4: Writer's Writers and Sensitive Cats: Mapping the New Jazz Criticism; Chapter 5: Swinging in a High-Class Groove: Mainstreaming Jazz in Lenox and Newport; Chapter 6: The Shock of the New: Black Freedom, the Counterculture, and 1960s Jazz Criticism
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7: Race-ing the Bird: Ross Russell's Obsessive Pursuit of Charlie ParkerChapter 8: Tangled Up in Blues: The New Jazz Renaissance and Its Discontents; Conclusion: Change of the Century; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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