Chuck Stewart's Jazz Files

Chuck Stewart's Jazz Files

Author: Charles Stewart

Publisher: New York Graphic Society

Published: 1985-10-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780316124522

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Gathers portraits of a variety of great jazz singers and musicians, and shares their comments on fellow performers


African Americans in the Visual Arts

African Americans in the Visual Arts

Author: Steven Otfinoski

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1438107773

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While social concerns have been central to the work of many African-American visual artists, painters


Jazz and American Culture

Jazz and American Culture

Author: Michael Borshuk

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1009420194

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This book explores jazz as a cultural lodestone and source of critical inquiry for over a century.


Chuck Stewart's Jazz Files

Chuck Stewart's Jazz Files

Author: Charles Stewart

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 1991-08-21

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780306804427

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A pictorial record of many of the great and innovative jazz musicians of the last 35 years offered by the photographer, Chuck Stewart. Jazz names like Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday, John Coltrane, Lester Bowie, David Murray, Wynton Marsalis and Charles Mingus all feature, along with anecdotes retold by the artists themselves. For example, Betty Carter talks about scatting, Carmen McRae recalls Bud Powell and Miles Davis speaks about his attitude to audiences.


Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 1

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 1

Author: John Shepherd

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2003-03-06

Total Pages: 833

ISBN-13: 184714473X

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The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music. In 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world, the volume explores the topic in two parts: Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covers the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music and Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided.


A Blues Bibliography

A Blues Bibliography

Author: Robert Ford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-03-31

Total Pages: 2397

ISBN-13: 1135865078

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A Blues Bibliography, Second Edition is a revised and enlarged version of the definitive blues bibliography first published in 1999. Material previously omitted from the first edition has now been included, and the bibliography has been expanded to include works published since then. In addition to biographical references, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. The Blues Bibliography is an invaluable guide to the enthusiastic market among libraries specializing in music and African-American culture and among individual blues scholars.


Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World

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Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2003-01-30

Total Pages: 833

ISBN-13: 0826463215

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‘This is an extraordinary achievement and it will become an absolutely vital and trusted resource for everyone working in the field of popular music studies. Even more broadly, anyone interested in popular music or popular music culture more generally will enjoy - and find many uses for - the wealth of information and insight captured in this volume.' Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The first comprehensive reference work on popular music of the world Contributors are the world's leading popular music scholars Includes extensive bibliographies, discographies, sheet music listings and filmographies. Popular music has been a major force in the world since the nineteenth century. With the advent of electronic and advanced technology it has become ubiquitous. This is the first volume in a series of encyclopedic works covering popular music of the world. Consisting of some 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world. Entries range between 250 and 5000 words, and is arranged in two Parts: Part 1: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covering the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music. Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided. For more information visit the website at: www.continuumpopmusic.com


Ebony

Ebony

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1986-03

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.


Reading Jazz

Reading Jazz

Author: David Meltzer

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13:

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Has jazz become a white invention, "neutralized" by the attempts of white critics to describe, define, and even defend a black form of expression? Such is the provocative argument that emerges from David Meltzer's compilation of controversial and thought-provoking writings on jazz from the early decades of this century to the present. This diverse anthology of writings on jazz not only charts the evolution of a musical form, it also reflects evolving racial and cultural conflicts and stereotypes. An unusual source book of jazz history, Reading Jazz examines its roots and its future as well as its links to and influence on other forms of modern cultural expression. David Meltzer artfully juxtaposes a variety of texts to explore the paradox of jazz as an art form perceived as both primitive and modern, to consider the use of jazz as a metaphor for new attitudes, to show how it was mythopoeticized and demonized, to view jazz as a focus for a variety of cultural attitudes, and to probe its relation to other aspects of modern culture. Arranged historically, both literary and popular texts are included, reflecting the interplay of jazz with both high and low culture, from such contributors as Hoagy Carmichael, Artie Shaw, Norman Mailer, Art Pepper, Simone de Beauvoir, Julio Cortazar, William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley, and many more. Reading Jazz will be indispensable not only for jazz enthusiasts but also for anyone interested in the evolution of modern culture.