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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... 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 film until Gone With the Wind ) , audiences dropped him ...
... 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 film until Gone With the Wind ) , audiences dropped him ...
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... singing , after a fashion , mocking comic mon- ologues . Of the many minstrels on the Great White Way , Williams alone could not rub off every indication of his plight as a well - paid second- class citizen . While white minstrels spoke ...
... singing , after a fashion , mocking comic mon- ologues . Of the many minstrels on the Great White Way , Williams alone could not rub off every indication of his plight as a well - paid second- class citizen . While white minstrels spoke ...
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... singing . But the music is less evocative than the recitation , an expansive and moving reminis- cence of a career that began in 1910. Cantor begins by recalling “ a much more pleasant day without the H - bomb , Senator McCarthy [ the ...
... singing . But the music is less evocative than the recitation , an expansive and moving reminis- cence of a career that began in 1910. Cantor begins by recalling “ a much more pleasant day without the H - bomb , Senator McCarthy [ the ...
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... singing in music halls and Presley , also from a religious family , found himself in Negro blues ) ; each was an obsessive mother lover ; each chose to live in isolation at the peak of his career . In Feel Like Going Home , Elvis's ...
... singing in music halls and Presley , also from a religious family , found himself in Negro blues ) ; each was an obsessive mother lover ; each chose to live in isolation at the peak of his career . In Feel Like Going Home , Elvis's ...
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... singing pro - slave lyrics for liberal record producers on the grounds that they were true folk material - but ... sing it exactly as written , including the line " There's where this old darkie's heart does long to go " and the stupe ...
... singing pro - slave lyrics for liberal record producers on the grounds that they were true folk material - but ... sing it exactly as written , including the line " There's where this old darkie's heart does long to go " and the stupe ...
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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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