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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459615303321
• Autore: Gennari John
• 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.

A companion to the American West [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William Deverell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830642503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004
• ISBN: 1-280-28437-4; 9786610284375; 1-4051-6585-5; 1-78034-043-5; 0-470-99647-1; 1-4051-3848-3; 1-4051-2895-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (586 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell companions to American history
• Altri autori (Persone): DeverellWilliam Francis
• Disciplina: 978
• Soggetti: West (U.S.) History
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN WEST; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Thinking Through the American West; 1 The Making of the First American West and the Unmaking of Other Realms; 2 Thinking West; Part II Conquest and Its Patterns: The Nineteenth Century; 3 Passion and Imagination in the Exploration of the American West; 4 Environment and the Nineteenth-Century West: Or, Process Encounters Place; 5 Engineering the Elephant: Industrialism and the Environment in the Greater West; 6 Mining and the Nineteenth-Century American West; 7 Law and the Contact of Cultures; 8 Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century American West9 Western Violence; 10 Bringing It All Back Home: Rethinking the History of Women and the Nineteenth-Century West; 11 Empire and Liberty: Contradictions and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Western Political History; Part III Exceptionalism or Regionalism? The Twentieth-Century American West; 12 African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West; 13 The West and Workers, 1870-1930; 14 Societies to Match the Scenery: Twentieth-Century Environmental History in the American West; 15 Where to Draw the Line? The Pacific, Place, and the US West; 16 Religion and the American West17 Transients and Stickers: The Problem of Community in the American West; 18 American Indians in the Twentieth Century; 19 The New Deal's West; 20 Art, Ideology, and the West; 21 ""The West Plays West"": Western Tourism and the Landscape of Leisure; 22 Hispanics and Latinos; 23 City Lights: Urban History in the West; 24 Politics and the Twentieth-Century American West; 25 The Literary West and the Twentieth Century; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography. Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers