Jazz in American Culture

Reducere. Jazz hides in plain sight in global culture, a musical revolution that led to soul, rock, funk, and hip-hop in a fascinating story of art, race, re...

Reducere. Pittsburgh's contributions to the uniquely American art form of jazz are essential to its national narrative. Fleeing the Jim Crow South in the twe...

Reducere. In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implicat...

Reducere. Anyone interested in learning about a distinct music--jazz--will welcome this newest addition to the popular 101 reference series. Noted anthropolo...

Reducere. "Billie Holiday deserves a biography in which her musicianship isn't overshadowed by the tragic events of her life. O'Meally has written that book,...

DescriptionA galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call "jazz" arose in ...

DescriptionA galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call "jazz" arose in ...

Reducere. A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz As Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno'...

In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a...

Reducere. Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers...

In writing his Self-Portrait of Black America, anthropologist, folklorist, and humanist John Gwaltney went in search of "Core Black People"--the or...

Reducere. In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916-2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the "pathology"...

Reducere. The first authoritative history of tap dancing, one of the great art forms--along with jazz and musical comedy--created in AmericaWhat the Eye Hear...

Reducere. Winner of theMihajlo Misa Djordjevic Book Prizeawarded by the North American Society for Serbian Studies Metropolitan Belgrade presents a sociocult...

DescriptionCrosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, with their distinct vocal harmonies, blending of rock, jazz, folk, and blues, and political and social ...

Reducere. At Home in Our Sounds illustrates the effect jazz music had on the enormous social challenges Europe faced in the aftermath of World War I. Examini...

DescriptionThe Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, an...

"Spectacular vernacular--delivered with fresh flavor."--Playboy"Hang with this slang and reep these righteous words " This entertaining, highly rea...

Reducere. The history of black Freemasonry from Boston and Philadelphia in the late 1700s through the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement - Examines the l...

DescriptionIt's hard to imagine that "the cool" could ever go out of style. After all, cool is style. Isn't it? And it may be harder to imagine a w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James N. GregoryBetween 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the fi...

DescriptionThe art and antics of rebellious figures in 1950s American nightlife--from the Beat Generation to eccentric jazz musicians and comedians...

``Revolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page written by Mumia Abu-Jamal ... His writings are a w...

Reducere. In the aftermath of Katrina and the disaster that followed, promises were made, forgotten, and renewed. Now what will become of New Orleans in the ...

DescriptionMachi Tawara's first book of poems, Salad Annivsersary, combines the classical 'tanka' form with the subject of a modern love affair. It...

Reducere. Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late '60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz ...

The Starr Piano Company, based in Richmond, Indiana, quickly became one of the largest piano manufacturers in the United States during the 19th cen...

Mississippi has produced outstanding writers in numbers far out of proportion to its population. Their contributions to American literature, includ...

In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. O...

Reducere. There he is, drumming on "Tutti Frutti, " "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', " and thousands of other songs. As a studio player in New Orleans and L...

It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face of an oppr...

Reducere. When it was first published in 2003, Rebel Musics sought to explore how musical activism resonates as resistance to the dominant culture, and how p...

Reducere. With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black ...

Reducere. In 1989, Malcolm McLaren had his only number one hit with a single called "Deep in Vogue." Early the next year, Madonna had one of the biggest hits...

Reducere. Entering World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a st...

Reducere. As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great-grandmother’s Cherokee stories and heard the whistle of the train...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Farah Jasmine GriffinMore than four decades after her death, Billie Holiday remains one of the most gifted artists of our t...

Reducere. Firecrackers: A Realistic Novel (1925) is a novel by Carl Van Vechten. Published in the same year as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Ani...