1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459615303321

Autore

Gennari John

Titolo

Blowin' hot and cool [[electronic resource] ] : jazz and its critics / / John Gennari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006

ISBN

1-283-05820-0

9786613058201

0-226-28924-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (495 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/8425

Soggetti

Jazz - History and criticism

Jazz - Social aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-444) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : (much more than) a few words about jazz -- Not only a new art form but a new reason for living -- As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm : hot collecting -- Across the color line -- Hearing 'the noisy lostness' : telling the story of jazz -- Writer's writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism -- Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport -- The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism -- Race-ing the bird : Ross Russell's obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker -- Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents -- Conclusion : change of the century.

Sommario/riassunto

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 1920's to the present. The music itself is prominent in his account,



as are the musicians-from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Roscoe Mitchell, and beyond. But the work takes its shape from fascinating stories of the tradition's key critics-Leonard Feather, Martin Williams, Whitney Balliett, Dan Morgenstern, Gary Giddins, and Stanley Crouch, among many others. Gennari is the first to show the many ways these critics have mediated the relationship between the musicians and the audience-not merely as writers, but in many cases as producers, broadcasters, concert organizers, and public intellectuals as well. For Gennari, the jazz tradition is not so much a collection of recordings and performances as it is a rancorous debate-the dissonant noise clamoring in response to the sounds of jazz. Against the backdrop of racial strife, class and gender issues, war, and protest that has defined the past seventy-five years in America, Blowin' Hot and Cool brings to the fore jazz's most vital critics and the role they have played not only in defining the history of jazz but also in shaping jazz's significance in American culture and life.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996393434003316

Autore

Ruland Martin <1532-1602.>

Titolo

Synonymia Latino Graeca D. Martini Rulandi [[electronic resource] ] : in duas partes conjunctas distincta. Olim ab illo congeri coepta: nunc passim emendata, & magna tam vocum quàm phrasium accessione locupleta. / / Opera Davidis Hoeschelij, augustani.  Editio postrema emendatior

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[S.l.], : Typis Iacobi Stoer., M.DCXVIII. [1628]

Descrizione fisica

[1]+ p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

HoeschelDavid <1556-1617.>

Soggetti

Latin language - Synonyms and antonyms

Greek language - Synonyms and antonyms

Title pages17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Fragment; consists of title page only.

Title within ornamental border.



Reproduction of original in: British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018

3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996384056603316

Autore

Wright Thomas <d. 1624.>

Titolo

Certaine articles or forcible reasons [[electronic resource] ] : Discouering the palpable absurdities, and most notorious errours of the Protestants religion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Printed at Antwerpe [i.e. England, : By the English secret press], 1600

Descrizione fisica

[44] p

Soggetti

Protestantism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Signed at end: H.T., i.e. Thomas Wright.

The imprint is false; printed by the English secret press --STC.

Signatures: A-B C⁴ D² .

Copy at reel 2088 lacks leaves A2, A3 and A4.

Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0055