Blowin' the Blues Away : Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene / / Travis A. Jackson |
Autore | Jackson Travis A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
Disciplina | 781.6509747109049 |
Collana | Music of the African Diaspora |
Soggetto topico |
Jazz
Jazz - History and criticism - New York (State) - New York |
Soggetto non controllato |
1980s new york
20th century jazz 20th century music 20th century new york african american jazz american music history books for music lovers books for music majors books for musicians ethnomusicology history of jazz jazz age jazz and blues jazz clubs jazz culture jazz icons jazz music music and culture music and entertainment music and race music research music musician stories new york city jazz new york city music clubs nyc history nyc jazz nyc music scene resurgence of jazz |
ISBN |
1-280-49208-2
9786613587312 0-520-95192-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE. Black, Brown and Beige -- PART TWO. Scenes in the City -- PART THREE. Blowin' the Blues Away -- Glossary -- Appendix: Excerpt from an Interview with Steve Wilson -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790115803321 |
Jackson Travis A. | ||
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Blowin' the Blues Away : Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene / / Travis A. Jackson |
Autore | Jackson Travis A. |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
Disciplina | 781.6509747109049 |
Collana | Music of the African Diaspora |
Soggetto topico |
Jazz
Jazz - History and criticism - New York (State) - New York |
Soggetto non controllato |
1980s new york
20th century jazz 20th century music 20th century new york african american jazz american music history books for music lovers books for music majors books for musicians ethnomusicology history of jazz jazz age jazz and blues jazz clubs jazz culture jazz icons jazz music music and culture music and entertainment music and race music research music musician stories new york city jazz new york city music clubs nyc history nyc jazz nyc music scene resurgence of jazz |
ISBN |
1-280-49208-2
9786613587312 0-520-95192-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE. Black, Brown and Beige -- PART TWO. Scenes in the City -- PART THREE. Blowin' the Blues Away -- Glossary -- Appendix: Excerpt from an Interview with Steve Wilson -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808381903321 |
Jackson Travis A. | ||
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Clark : the autobiography of Clark Terry / / with Gwen Terry ; with a preface by Quincy Jones, foreword by Bill Cosby, introduction by David Demsey |
Autore | Terry Clark |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
Disciplina |
788.9/2165092
B |
Altri autori (Persone) |
TerryGwen
JonesQuincy <1933-> CosbyBill <1937-> DemseyDavid |
Collana | George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies |
Soggetto topico |
Jazz musicians - United States
Trumpet players - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century jazz
african american history african american musicians american music billie holiday count basie duke ellington ella fitzgerald grammy lifetime achievement award history of jazz influential african americans influential musicians jazz and blues jazz enthusiasts jazz icons jazz musician biography jazz trumpeter jim crow music during segregation music history music musicians overcoming prejudice overcoming racism quincy jones ray charles southern jazz tonight show trumpet players |
ISBN |
1-283-27825-1
9786613278258 0-520-94978-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Big Dreams -- 2. First Instruments -- 3. Kicked Out -- 4. The Vashon High Swingsters -- 5. First Road Gig -- 6. Nigga -- 7. Ida Cox -- 8. Stranded -- 9. Lincoln Inn -- 10. On the Road Again -- 11. Tennis Shoe Pimp -- 12. Jailed -- 13. Len Bowden -- 14. Navy Days -- 15. Gray Clouds -- 16. The Big Apple -- 17. George Hudson -- 18. The Club Plantation -- 19. Galloping Dominoes -- 20. Tempting Offers -- 21. Lionel Hampton -- 22. Road Lessons -- 23. Pauline -- 24. Charlie Barnet -- 25. Count Basie -- 26. Big Debt -- 27. Duke Ellington -- 28. Leaving Basie -- 29. The University of Ellingtonia -- 30. Working with Duke -- 31. Duke's Team -- 32. Duke's Management Arts -- 33. Miles and Bird -- 34. Billy Strayhorn -- 35. Endurances -- 36. Flugelhorn -- 37. Europe -- 38. Norman Granz -- 39. Norman's Battles -- 40. Q -- 41. NBC -- 42. Jim and Andy's -- 43. Johnny and Ed -- 44. Mumbles -- 45. First House |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789765803321 |
Terry Clark | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Jazz/Not Jazz : The Music and Its Boundaries / / David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Daniel Ira Goldmark |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2012] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 pages) |
Disciplina | 781.65 |
Soggetto topico |
Jazz - History and criticism
Jazz -- History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century america
20th century music african american history african american jazz afro-latin jazz american music history american music asian american jazz black music books for music lovers caribbean jazz evolution of jazz history of jazz history of music intercultural music jazz and blues jazz icons jazz literature jazz lovers jazz music jazz performers jazz studies jazz tradition latin jazz louis armstrong music and culture music history majors music studies musicians |
ISBN |
1-280-49188-4
9786613587114 0-520-95135-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Incorporation and Distinction in Jazz History and Jazz Historiography -- 2. Louis Armstrong Loves Guy Lombardo -- 3. The Humor of Jazz -- 4. Creating Boundaries in the Virtual Jazz Community -- 5. Latin Jazz, Afro- Latin Jazz, Afro- Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Ca rib be an Jazz, Jazz Latin, or Just . . . Jazz: The Politics of Locating an Intercultural Music -- 6. Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook -- 7. "Slightly Left of Center": Atlantic Rec ords and the Problems of Genre -- 8. The Praxis of Composition- Improvisation and the Poetics of Creative Kinship -- 9. The Sound of Struggle: Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Asian American Jazz -- 10. Voices from the Jazz Wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest Vocal Ensembles within Jazz Education -- 11. Crossing the Street: Rethinking Jazz Education -- 12. Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The "Subjectless Subject" of New Jazz Studies -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779284203321 |
Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2012] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Music and politics in San Francisco [[electronic resource] ] : from the 1906 quake to the Second World War / / Leta E. Miller |
Autore | Miller Leta E |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of CA Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (382 p.) |
Disciplina | 780.9794/6109041 |
Collana | CA studies in 20th-century music |
Soggetto topico |
Music - Political aspects - California - San Francisco - History - 20th century
Music - Social aspects - California - San Francisco - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
1930s california
20th century america 20th century music american music history asian americans asian music california history california politics chinese immigration chinese opera classical music great depression history of jazz history of opera history live arts music and racism music and segregation music history and criticism music night club jazz philharmonic realistic san francisco symphony san franciscos fairs us history west coast history west coast music wwii america wwii music |
ISBN |
1-283-31140-2
9786613311405 0-520-95009-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Paris of the West: San Francisco at the Turn of the Century -- 2. The Politics of Class The San Francisco Symphony, the People's Philharmonic, and the Lure of European Culture (1911 - 1930) -- 3. The Politics of Race: Chinatown, Forbidden and Alluring -- INTERLUDE 1: Two Musical Tributes to San Francisco's Chinatown -- 4. The Politics of Labor: The Union(s), the Clubs and Theaters, and the Predicament of Black Musicians -- 5. Musical Utopias: Ada Clement, Ernest Bloch, and the San Francisco Conservatory -- 6. Opera: The People's Music or a Diversion for the Rich? -- 7. The Despair of the Depression and the Clash of Race -- 8. Ultramodernism and Other Contemporary Offerings: Looking West, Challenging the East -- 9. The Politics of Work: Idealism Confronts Bureaucracy in the Federal Music Project -- INTERLUDE 2. Highlights from San Francisco's Federal Music Project: Take Your Choice and Keeton's Concert Spirituals -- 10. Welcoming the World: San Francisco's Fairs of 1915 and 1939 - 1940 -- 11. Aftermath -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789765703321 |
Miller Leta E | ||
Berkeley, : University of CA Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Music makes me [[electronic resource] ] : Fred Astaire and jazz / / Todd Decker |
Autore | Decker Todd R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (391 p.) |
Disciplina | 781.65092 |
Collana | Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint |
Soggetto topico |
Jazz musicians - United States
Dancers - United States Motion picture actors and actresses - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
1930s movie musicals
20th century dance 20th century film 20th century jazz 20th century musicals 20th century african american musicians american choreographers american film american jazz american music culture american musicians dance easter parade funny face george gershwin history of film history of jazz history of music irving berlin jazz and blues jazz icons jazz musician biographies jerome kern johnny mercer music and dance music and race music legends musicians performing arts top hat |
ISBN |
1-283-27836-7
0-520-95006-2 9786613278364 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Astaire among others: "There's a difference and Astaire is it" ; "I am a creator" -- pt. 2. Astaire at the studios: "I play with the very best bands" ; "Tell them to let it swing" ; "Fixing up" tunes -- pt. 3. Astaire in jazz and popular music: "Keep time with the time and with the times" ; "Jazz means the blues" ; "Anything that will send me" ; "You play and I'll dance." |
Altri titoli varianti | Fred Astaire and jazz |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786708203321 |
Decker Todd R | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Music makes me : Fred Astaire and jazz / / Todd Decker |
Autore | Decker Todd R |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (391 p.) |
Disciplina | 781.65092 |
Collana | Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint |
Soggetto topico |
Jazz musicians - United States
Dancers - United States Motion picture actors and actresses - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
1930s movie musicals
20th century dance 20th century film 20th century jazz 20th century musicals 20th century african american musicians american choreographers american film american jazz american music culture american musicians dance easter parade funny face george gershwin history of film history of jazz history of music irving berlin jazz and blues jazz icons jazz musician biographies jerome kern johnny mercer music and dance music and race music legends musicians performing arts top hat |
ISBN |
1-283-27836-7
0-520-95006-2 9786613278364 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Astaire among others: "There's a difference and Astaire is it" ; "I am a creator" -- pt. 2. Astaire at the studios: "I play with the very best bands" ; "Tell them to let it swing" ; "Fixing up" tunes -- pt. 3. Astaire in jazz and popular music: "Keep time with the time and with the times" ; "Jazz means the blues" ; "Anything that will send me" ; "You play and I'll dance." |
Altri titoli varianti | Fred Astaire and jazz |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818644403321 |
Decker Todd R | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Norman Granz [[electronic resource] ] : the man who used jazz for justice / / Tad Hershorn ; foreword by Oscar Peterson |
Autore | Hershorn Tad |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (502 p.) |
Disciplina |
781.65092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Impresarios - United States
Jazz - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century jazz
african american jazz african american performers billie holiday ella fitzgerald entertainment industry history of jazz history of music influential african americans inspiring musicians jazz and blues jazz at the philharmonic jazz biography jazz icons jazz lovers jazz stars music and theater music lovers musician biography musician books oscar peterson overcoming prejudice post war jazz post wwii racial prejudice social activist social prejudice verve records world of jazz |
ISBN |
1-283-29183-5
9786613291837 0-520-94977-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Prologue: "I Made Things Work" -- 1. "A ll I Wanted Was My Freedom" -- 2. "A Marvelous Crucible" -- 3. Cole Train -- 4. "The Opener" -- 5. Let Freedom Swing -- 6. Norman Granz versus . . . -- 7. Mambo Jambo -- 8. Enter Ella and Oscar -- 9. The Continental -- 10. "I Feel Most at Home in the Studio" -- 11. Starry Nights -- 12. "T hat Tall Old Man Standing Next to Ella Fitzgerald" -- 13. The Jazz Hurricane -- 14. "T he Lost Generation" -- 15. Duke, Prez, and Billie -- 16. Joie de Verve -- 17. Across the Sea -- 18. "Musicians Don't Want to Jam" -- 19. Picasso on the Beach -- 20. "One More Once" -- 21. Takin' It on Out - for Good -- 22. "Somewhere There's Music" -- Epilogue: "My Career, Such As It Is . . ." -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781753803321 |
Hershorn Tad | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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