Visions of Jazz: The First CenturyOxford University Press, 2000 M05 18 - 704 páginas Poised to become a classic of jazz literature, Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning, and from the swinging elegance of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman, jazz critic Gary Giddins continually astonishes the reader with his unparalleled insight. Writing with the grace and wit that have endeared his prose to Village Voice readers for decades, Giddins also widens the scope of jazz to include such crucial American musicians as Irving Berlin, Rosemary Clooney, and Frank Sinatra, all primarily pop performers who are often dismissed by fans and critics as mere derivatives of the true jazz idiom. And he devotes an entire quarter of this landmark volume to young, still-active jazz artists, boldly expanding the horizons of jazz--and charting and exploring the music's influences as no other book has done. |
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... Singer and suffering through his lament " Sonny Boy " in The Singing Fool ( a dreadful concoction that , benefiting from the first film's publicity and the increased number of theaters wired for sound in 1928 , remained the top grossing ...
... Singer and suffering through his lament " Sonny Boy " in The Singing Fool ( a dreadful concoction that , benefiting from the first film's publicity and the increased number of theaters wired for sound in 1928 , remained the top grossing ...
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... singer . " Jolson bought the hype , too , and is said to have boasted that he invented black entertainment ; he ... singing in music halls and Presley , also from a religious family , found himself in Negro blues ) ; each was an ...
... singer . " Jolson bought the hype , too , and is said to have boasted that he invented black entertainment ; he ... singing in music halls and Presley , also from a religious family , found himself in Negro blues ) ; each was an ...
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... singer of his postwar comeback . Jolson may have little to do with jazz , though his " When the Grown Up Ladies Act Like Babies " ( 1914 ) is undeniably jazzy , complete with vocal breaks . But he helped create the singer as matinee ...
... singer of his postwar comeback . Jolson may have little to do with jazz , though his " When the Grown Up Ladies Act Like Babies " ( 1914 ) is undeniably jazzy , complete with vocal breaks . But he helped create the singer as matinee ...
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... Singer ) , where imprecations to separate the two have never completely faded . In the ' 50s , bluesman Big Bill ... Singers began concertiz- ing in the 1870s in the North and then in Europe , the " sorrow song , " in W. E. B. DuBois's ...
... Singer ) , where imprecations to separate the two have never completely faded . In the ' 50s , bluesman Big Bill ... Singers began concertiz- ing in the 1870s in the North and then in Europe , the " sorrow song , " in W. E. B. DuBois's ...
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... singer details in a series of verses , each followed by the chorus of merriment ( “ Jimmy crack corn and I don't care / My massa's gone away ' ) . We don't know for sure where he's gone until the end , when his epitaph is sung . The ...
... singer details in a series of verses , each followed by the chorus of merriment ( “ Jimmy crack corn and I don't care / My massa's gone away ' ) . We don't know for sure where he's gone until the end , when his epitaph is sung . The ...
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A NEW MUSIC | 67 |
A POPULAR MUSIC | 151 |
A MODERN MUSIC | 231 |
A MAINSTREAM MUSIC | 337 |
AN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC | 437 |
A STRUGGLING MUSIC | 527 |
A TRADITIONAL MUSIC | 585 |
Acknowledgments | 655 |
Index of Names | 657 |
Index of Songs and Selected Albums | 671 |
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