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Autore |
Santoro Gene |
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Titolo |
Myself when I am real [[electronic resource] ] : the life and music of Charles Mingus / / Gene Santoro |
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New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
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0-19-802578-5 |
1-280-53212-2 |
1-4237-4643-0 |
1-60256-692-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 452 p., [16] p. of plates ) : ill., ports |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jazz musicians - United States |
Biography |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2000. |
Includes index. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-399). |
Discography: (p. 401-424). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface; Introduction; Prologue: Better Get It In Your Soul; 1. Growing Up Absurd; 2. Black Like Me; 3. Making the Scene; 4. Life During Wartime; 5. Portrait of the Artist; 6. The Big Apple, or On the Road; 7. Pithecanthropus Erectus; 8. Mingus Dynasty; 9. Camelot; 10. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady; 11. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest; 12. Beneath the Underdog; 13. Let My Children Hear Music; 14. Changes; 15. Don't Be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid, Too; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; Acknowledgements; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Music critic Gene Santoro strips away the myths shrouding jazz's angry man, revealing Mingus as more complex than even his lovers and close friends knew. A pioneering bassist and composer, Mingus redefined jazz's terrain. |
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