1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910823468803321

Autore

Gushee Lawrence

Titolo

Pioneers of jazz [[electronic resource] ] : the story of the Creole Band / / Lawrence Gushee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-772883-9

1-280-53264-5

9786610532643

0-19-534764-1

1-4237-2042-3

1-60256-872-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Disciplina

785/.2165/06076335

Soggetti

Jazz musicians - Louisiana - New Orleans

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. [277]-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dramatis personae -- Before the beginning -- The first season -- The second season -- The third season -- The final season -- Life and music after the band.

Sommario/riassunto

Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918. This seven-piece band toured the country, exporting for the first time the authentic jazz strains that had developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century. The band's vaudeville routines were deeply rooted in the minstrel shows and plantation cliches of American show business in the late 19th century, but its instrumental music was central to its performance and distinctive and entrancing to audiences and reviewers. Pioneers of Jazz reveals at lo



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822943303321

Autore

Cohen Yohanan

Titolo

Small nations in times of crisis and confrontation / / Yohanan Cohen ; translated from Hebrew by Naftali Greenwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1989

ISBN

0-7914-9938-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (414 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/437

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Czechoslovakia

World War, 1939-1945 - Poland

World War, 1939-1945 - Finland

Czechoslovakia History 1938-1945

Poland History Occupation, 1939-1945

Finland History 1939-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Umot-be-mivhan.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.