04286nam 2200637 a 450 991045961530332120200520144314.01-283-05820-097866130582010-226-28924-910.7208/9780226289243(CKB)2670000000066513(EBL)648131(OCoLC)701053921(SSID)ssj0000467325(PQKBManifestationID)11286831(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467325(PQKBWorkID)10490337(PQKB)11064668(MiAaPQ)EBC648131(DE-B1597)524428(OCoLC)1135576775(DE-B1597)9780226289243(Au-PeEL)EBL648131(CaPaEBR)ebr10442167(CaONFJC)MIL305820(EXLCZ)99267000000006651320051019d2006 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrBlowin' hot and cool[electronic resource] jazz and its critics /John GennariChicago University of Chicago Press20061 online resource (495 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-28923-0 0-226-28922-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-444) and index.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.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.JazzHistory and criticismJazzSocial aspectsUnited StatesElectronic books.JazzHistory and criticism.JazzSocial aspects306.4/8425Gennari John769767MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459615303321Blowin' hot and cool2204358UNINA