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Jazz Worlds/World Jazz (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Philip V Bohlman (Ed.)
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Paperback. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: WZ. Dimension: 250 x 150. Weight in Grams: 666.
Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So when Ernest Hemingway wrote about seeing jazz in 1920s Paris, and when British colonial officials danced to jazz in the clubs of Calcutta in the waning years of the Raj, how, exactly, had it gotten there? Jazz Worlds/World Jazz aims to answer these questions and more, bringing together voices from countries as far flung as Azerbaijan, Armenia, and India to show that the story of jazz is not trapped in American history books but alive in global ... Read more
Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So when Ernest Hemingway wrote about seeing jazz in 1920s Paris, and when British colonial officials danced to jazz in the clubs of Calcutta in the waning years of the Raj, how, exactly, had it gotten there? Jazz Worlds/World Jazz aims to answer these questions and more, bringing together voices from countries as far flung as Azerbaijan, Armenia, and India to show that the story of jazz is not trapped in American history books but alive in global ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
730g
Number of Pages
552
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226236032
SKU
V9780226236032
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About Philip V Bohlman (Ed.)
Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of many books, including Jewish Musical Modernism and Music and the Racial Imagination, and coeditor of the Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology series, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Goffredo Plastino is a ... Read more
Reviews for Jazz Worlds/World Jazz (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Jazz Worlds/World Jazz is a fine introduction to different ways of looking at and learning to play jazz. And it certainly provides an alternate narrative to the clich d story of the music migrating up the river from New Orleans to points north and then suddenly and miraculously easily disseminating all over the world.
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